2009/10/16 Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: > | Hi, > | > |> Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, > |> postfix, mysql, etc. > | > | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? > | > | If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with Debian on > | Sparc, and NetBSD. > | > | S. > > IIRC there were (and maybe, still are) difficulties of Linux using the > (P)MMU in SPARC(64) CPUs, resulting in performance hits. I'm not sure if > it was fixed (during the years), though. Not sure - I have some people I can ask. I've not deployed a Linux-on-Sparc64 machine that needed to be performant. For blistering speed NetBSD is the way to go - it's scary-fast. S.