Leopard Server hardware requirements?

[Geoff Lee]

Ashley Aitken wrote:
> 
> On 03/10/2007, at 2:51 PM, LuKreme wrote:
> 
>> On 2-Oct-2007, at 23:03, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>>> Server and client OSs have different hardware requirements.
>>
>> They do?  I can't find any requirments on 10.4 that differ from the 
>> client version excpet except for the size of the install and 
>> recommended RAM.
> 
> I was speaking generally about server versus client operating systems.
> 
> I assume you would generally agree servers generally need faster hard 
> drives, bus, and I/O systems whereas clients generally need faster CPU 
> and GPU (again excluding compute servers).

But these requirements are governed by what you want to do with it rather than any requirement of the OS. Tiger server will run on 500MHz G3 iMac, but you wouldn't use it to serve 150 home directories...

-geoff

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