On 06/07/10 17:05, Paul Willis wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone recommend any hardware that would be the equivalent to a Mac Mini > that is guaranteed to run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as a headless server? > > Background: > > We are a Mac shop but are now using Ubuntu 10.04 on our production servers. > We would like to set up an Ubuntu 10.04 server in our office for development. > > We have a brand new Apple Mac Mini which would have been perfect but having > looked into it there's a bug/driver problem with the latest Macs with SATA > drives. While this is on the list to be fixed nobody knows how long this will > be so I think our best bet is to get a small PC for the purpose. > > I know nothing about PCs, what's available, what's dodgy, what will work > without problems with Ubuntu etc so I'm hoping someone here can point me in > the right direction. As mentioned - ideally we'd like the PC equivalent of a > Mac Mini. Small footprint, low power consumption, couple of GB of RAM, fairly > decent CPU, ethernet most important though is a fuss free Ubuntu install. > > As it will be run as a headless server great graphics capability isn't an > issue > > Any suggestions > > Paul >
You might be worth having a look at some of the Dell systems, I believe the Zino is around the same sort of size as the Mac Mini and comes with a variety of CPUs and memory sizes. I believe the Zino HD have the beefier CPUs (the standard Zino appears to have an Atom CPU). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
