Thanks Bruce for the input. You have to understand I just bought
this G5 and it's my 'baby'. I really don't want to start adding a
lot of server stuff onto it and then later losing interest and then
saying "how the heck do you get rid of this stuff?". So, my
objective was #1) get more familiar with Linux and load as much
server stuff on it as I wanted or needed or thought I needed to play
around with so in the future if/when I lose interest, I can just
trash the whole thing. I *did* try to install it on the G5 (Ubuntu
that is) but did something wrong and ended up in open
firmware..oops! So, since I have a Blue and White G3 400 and a G3
iMac 400 sitting around, I think I might just put it on either of
then. The annoyance that I've come across with the Blue & White is
that I have a Sonnet Aria wireless card in it and it works fine in X
but Linux won't see it so I have to run a cable to it....messy. The
iMac has the ability to use the original Airport card, all i need is
the Airport Carrier card (which I've order on the swap list and am
waiting for it to arrive) so I think it might be the machine that I
end up using in the end....plus it seems to run a bit faster than the
Blue & White (it's 2 years newer, also). So, I think I'll keep my G5
in it's pristine state and use one of my back ups as the Linux
machine. My iBook is out of the question for Linux....it's the Mac I
use the most (using it right now). In the future, if I should have a
little Linux question, would you mind if I were to ask it of you?
I'll ask one now: I have a choice between YDL, Debian and Ubuntu, do
you have a preference?
Tim
On Oct 20, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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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Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
Tim Collier
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