On 9/7/05, Brent Baisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you've probably read in the article, the hardware isn't too bad, > it's OS X that is slowing things down.
Interesting article. Helped me make my decision between OS X, and Debian on our xServes. It appears bypassing the gui, and running a straight console won't even help if the problem is with all the wrappers. > I would first go the free route. Download YellowDog Linux and install > that on your current Mac hardware. That will give you a big boost > when the load starts to climb. I've installed YellowDog on an old Mac > (350Mhz) and it was pretty painless. If you can get around in the > terminal on the Mac, you should do fine under Linux. In addition to Yellow Dog. Lots of other distros offer ppc versions. I use Debian, but Gentoo, Suse, and others offer them too. I'd definitely try those first before forking out 2 grand. It's a good time for Debian. Sarge was released not too long ago, so the stable packages are no longer ancient, and installing mysql is as easy as running apt-get install mysql-server-4.1 Of course you might want to configure it some, but they provide decent defaults. If you've ever used Fink on OS X, you might already be familiar with apt-get. -- Chris Martin Web Developer Open Source & Web Standards Advocate http://www.chriscodes.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
