On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
The Mac Mini is fast, small, quiet, and cheap. Why is it not a
good cheap server?
I would only be concerned about the disk depending on what sort of
server you are intending to have. I do not know but assume that they
still use the laptop 2.5" drives which are not 24/7 rated. Probably
doesn't matter for most home servers. Lack of storage space unless
you start hooking up external drives. What sort of server are you
intending?
I am actually thinking about using Mac Mini machines for IMAP and
SMTP front ends using NFS mounted backend storage due to their size
and low power draw. I can stick many of them in the same place that
a 2U rack unit would go and with fans blowing data center A/C air
across them there should be no heat issues and with the backend NFS
storage, all the actual mail itself would be processed off-disk so
the disks would basically get no work out...
Chad
On Apr 27, 2006, at 1:58 PM, John Cruz wrote:
A mac mini is an odd machine to make into a server, but no matter.
I doubt you'll run into any issues with installing it. Darwin is
nice, but it was developed to be the underlying layer of the
finder GUI. And the freeBSD ports system is so much nicer than any
other nix install system that there's no comparison.
-JOhn
Mark Edwards wrote:
Because I want to run FreeBSD, not Darwin. This is for a server,
not for a desktop. I'm used to FreeBSD, and I am migrating an
existing machine over.
On Apr 27, 2006, at 1:49 PM, James Riendeau wrote:
Oops. Looks like the URL changed. It is: http://
opensource.apple.com/
-james
On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:47 PM, James Riendeau wrote:
Why? Mac OS X has a complete unix freebsd-like core called
darwin ( http://www.darwin.org ). There's no reason to install
freebsd on it. Just install Mac Developer Tools (included in
the Applications folder), compile your favorite progs and go.
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On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
Does anyone know if the Intel Macs can boot and install
FreeBSD, now that the firmware includes BIOS compatibility?
Has anyone seen it happen?
I'm thinking of using a Mac Mini as a quiet living-room
server. Thanks!
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