Hello Terry,
Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 04:24:09(UTC), you wrote:
TM> Also, no offense, but there is no reason to run OS X so far, unless you just
TM> want to play with a new toy or are doing software development, or if you are
TM> doing some type of file serving-web page hosting arrangement. On some of the
TM> newer machines, there is a good reason, but unless you can think of a reason
TM> to run OS X, there isn't one right now. Maybe in a few months; and most
TM> likely if it's software related, it won't run well on a 133MHz 604 anyway.
Agreed. To top it off, value of X for learning UNIX is a bit
diminished by the fact that what is called 'userland layer' is
based on FreeBSD 3.2. After 3.2 we had 3.3, 3.4, 3.5.1,
4.0, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4. Multiply by 6 months between
releases and you will get the amount of lag. Besides, you can run
it on a $20 box from your friendly neighbourhood garage sale.
That's what I do for my home back-up running ftp server, Samba and
Netatalk on it plus other usual suspects: DNS, Apache, etc.
Bying expensive Apple hardware to run Apache et al does not make
any sense. if you have an oldish A box to waste you could install
NetBSD, OpenBSD or Linux.
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