On Oct 19, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
As a server, it's great. I'm interested in exploring the server side of it especially mysql and php.
As a server, OS X is just as good, given I've gotten php and mysql (and apache) running just happy happy under OS X.
There appear to be compiler issues peculiar to OS X and MySQL that make it benchmark slower on a G5 running OS X (though these results are debatable), but if I was to put a database on OS X where the volume and pace of transactions made that effect noticeable, I wouldn't be using a small-scale DBMS like mysql anyway. I'd likely be using either Oracle (The UA has a license, and Oracle lets you download any product they have for development purposes, for free.) or more likely Postgres.
I'm not dissing your decision, just a reminder that OS X is *nix, too, and a perfectly good server system.
If your objective is to learn Linux and Linux system administration specifically, then loading Linux is the best way to go, but if your objective is to learn php, mysql and other services like them that run on Linux, then OS X is just as good a platform.
As for the original question about the dual boot thing, somewhere there's a file that specifies what GRUB offers to boot, look in the GRUB manpages, there's a way to make it only offer one choice, which it'll take automatically. You can also set it to boot automatically into one or the other of your choices, with time to specify the other.
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