Hi everyone. I�ve been playing with linux (ML8.1) for a little while on my home machine (an old P166). Our family is getting to the point where we need a second machine, so I�m trying to decide on the merits of going with a PowerPC (Mac) architecture (perhaps a new Mac G4) instead of Intel. I forsee my current machine being used primarily as a linux box (file/print server, database server, secondary desktop for me). We would use the newer machine as the primary (user-friendly) desktop that all family members will be comfortable using.
One of the things about the Mac that caught my attention was that its new OS X is basically another Unix variant. Aside from being more stable than Windows, Im hoping that each machine would be able to easily mount the others file systems. Has anyone tried this? I would expect it to be simply a matter of starting up an NFS service. I know that you can similarly use SAMBA to serve files to a Windows client, but I understand that this would be more limiting (the linux box cant write to the Windows partitions, etc...). I know that several distributions (Mandrake, SuSe, and Debian) come in PPC flavours, but I sometimes wonder if they will continue to find it worthwhile to develop for PPC. Although I expect that we would usually use OS X on the Mac, I would eventually want to someday put linux on that machine also. How does everyone else feel about the future of linux support for the Mac? I would be interested in any thoughts/experiences people have concerning Mac vs Intel architecture (either relating to the above or in any other respect). Thanks in advance, Mel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
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