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ARM compatiblity
Hi,
I understand that packages must be ARM compatible to work on these servers so you cannot assume that when you buy those low end server you just get a lower performance but you could also be missing out some important features.
Let's say you have Ubuntu installed, will common web server work? PHP, MySQL?
Is there a list?
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Dunno about Ubuntu, but in Debian about 98% of packages provide an ARM version (look for "armhf"):
https://buildd.debian.org/stats/
Of course all the most common things such as web servers, PHP/Perl/Python, databases are included.
General the rule of thumb is as long as you don't need to manually download software from some random website, or to add custom repositories/PPAs to make something work, i.e. as long as you rely on the OS package repository, it will work on ARM.
That's good to know thanks!