Hi all, I've been successfully running a stock Woody install on an SS5 70MHz/128MB for a year or so now as my home firewall/router/mail server but felt I'd outgrown it's limited processing power (wanting to do more with it) and recently treated myself to a SPARCstation 20 with 2x150Mhz Ross CPUs and 256MB RAM as an upgrade from eBay.
I used to run RH7 on a twin Pentium Pro machine until a couple of years ago and assumed the SMP implementation would be as solid for SPARC as for the i686 but after doing a minimal install of Woody, upgrading to a 2.4.24 kernel and doing a dist-upgrade to Sarge I've had 42 different types of crashes, spin-locks and unimplemented system call errors. So, what would people consider to be the best balance of up-to-date, yet stable, kernel and distribution for this machine? -- /-Gary Parker-----------------------f-Loughborough University-\ n IT Bandwidth Management Specialist - http://www.bmas.ja.net | | Computing Services - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/computing/ o \r----------------------------------------------------------d-/
