Leopard Server hardware requirements?

[Karl Kuehn]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

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

	You are seriously considering running your server off a computer  
that has 0 chance of having a warrantee? And that has no chance at  
all for direct replacement? And that is on a platform (PPC) that you  
can't buy new hardware on?

	Are you really so bad off that you can't invest $1200 in an iMac to  
do this job? (less if you would consider a mini or are in .edu and  
can buy the old iMac) I think you need to bite the bullet and let go  
of old hardware. It may look like a good deal to not spend money on  
hardware, but you wind up spending it on support time instead.

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

	Both of those are designed to run very slim, MacOS X Server is  
designed to be "easy to use" the two don't usually have similar  
design goals.

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		Karl Kuehn
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