i386/amd64. Nothing else is realistic these days. Sparc64 is wonderful but is basically legacy - it's great for finding bugs and I use it for hacking but is not something I run in production.
All my production gear is i386 or amd64 - with a few exceptions. Yes, the hardware sucks and the biosen were written by monkeys and have their fingers in everything making the machine even more stupid. There are no realistic alternatives. There might have been if Sun hadn'tbeen so determined to turn itself from a good hardware company into a company trying to compete in Microsoft's product space (selling bad bloated software) where they had no hope of doing as well except in crowds that would buy it because "at least it's not Microsoft". 2009/11/9 Daniel Gracia Garallar <danie...@electronicagracia.com>: > Hi there! > > Now that I have to change my little server farm and I'm able to choose a new > platform, I would like to choose wisely. > > It's a matter of fact that Intel x86 is bogus-prone, and after experimenting > a lot with OpenBSD and listening about the different archs since several > years ago, I tend to think that most of the delevopers have a taste for > Sparc derived machines as being more... predictable. But of course, no > machine is bug free. > > So thinking about security and stability, what would be your OpenBSD > platform of choice? > > Keep in mind that in this question price is not a factor. I'm just curious > about preferences based on CPU features and their implementation on OpenBSD. > > Regards! > > Dani
