Hello all, How mature is the Debian GNU/Linux for 64bit SPARC Machines? Our office bought SunFire 280R <http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/280r/sun280r_serverdatasheet.pdf> with 2 UltraSPARC III Cu 900Mhz SuperScalar SPARC V9 processors and 4GB RAM intended for my mail server project that I'll administer soon but I'm afraid to use Solaris 8 or probably Solaris 9 for this purpose because I don't have any experience with Solaris OS. I'm thinking of using GNU/Linux and I think Debian would be the best distribution for SPARC machines. But I'm actually a Mandrake Linux user. I'm just afraid I can't use the tools that I usually use in my Mandrake Linux machines if I'll use Solaris 8 or 9.
I hope I can convince my boss not to use Solaris 8 or 9 on that machine instead, I will use and install GNU/Linux on it and Debian would be the distribution. Advice please? Am I doing the right thing? Practically, what would you recommend for production server like this one? By the way, the project is not just the usual mailing service. All the mails that will go out to our server will be by batch jobs because the nature of the project is a notification and confirmation service for the clients. My preferred MTA is qmail. Please Cc: me for all your response because I'm not subscribe to this mailing list. Thanks in advance. GNUbie -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
