Leopard Server hardware requirements?

[John C. Welch]

On 10/03/2007 09:30 AM, "Ashley Aitken" <mrhatken at mac.com> wrote:

> 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.

That's assuming that GUI is the major use of hardware for the OS.
Considering the kinds of data throughput needs of a server, such as RAM,
network, drive, that's not a good assumption to make.

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

Define: Reasonable, Small, Workgroup, and "most services". Those have
different meanings to everyone who uses them.

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

There's no empirical way to define that for all uses. It really depends on
what you're doing.

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