Leopard Server hardware requirements?

[Ashley Aitken]

On 03/10/2007, at 7:20 PM, Geoff Lee wrote:

> 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...

Yes, good point Geoff, and I guess the same would apply to the client  
OS.

That said, I think that the main criteria used for the Leopard client  
OS hardware requirements would be that the GUI and all the consumer  
apps (e.g. iLife) should perform reasonably well.

As that is not generally the requirement for a server, perhaps the  
minimum requirement for Leopard server could be quite less, again the  
minimum requirements.

I'm hoping that a G4 400MHz Power Mac (which has Firewire) will be a  
reasonable small workgroup server, for most services.

What overhead would Mac OS X Server have when running headless  
compared to a Linux or pure BSD server?  I assume not much.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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