[igglue]

It's quite simply small, fast enough. and super quiet to do apache. Some of the laptops are noisier then this thing!

You only really need three things.
1. I upgraded my 1.42 to 512megs of ram (home depot's drywall knife).
2. x-code
3. apache source (compiled without a snatch.)

The only problem was I was trying to use port 88, and it really didn't like that. Once I moved up to the 1000's range it works like a champ.

If you want a home apache server that's super quiet and you can shove it in a small place, why not try mac mini? I've used Free BSD in the dot com days so I'm very comfortable and I trust Free BSD over Linux. (Yahoo used to use it extensively after long testing/eval).

For a linux/Windows mixed user, Mac OS-X is the best OS. I used to have linux box, and Windows box. Besides gaming and work specific needs, I no longer power on either of the box as I've migrated all the main day-to-day work over to mac mini. (Yes, I am using Apple Mail using gmail for pop support (just got my account last night!)).

Iggy

[chrisutley]

My feeling is that the Mini is major overkill money wise for what you are apparently doing with it. If you have extra money to throw at it, and prefer the Mac - sure I guess it's great. If money is an issue, you'd be far better off with a cheap PC running Linux or FreeBSD.

Apache comes installed on the machine, so the non-UNIX geeks among us that don't know how to build Apache from source can get up and running by simply going to the Sharing PP.

Originally posted by igglue:
It's quite simply small, fast enough. and super quiet to do apache. Some of the laptops are noisier then this thing!

You only really need three things.
1. I upgraded my 1.42 to 512megs of ram (home depot's drywall knife).
2. x-code
3. apache source (compiled without a snatch.)

The only problem was I was trying to use port 88, and it really didn't like that. Once I moved up to the 1000's range it works like a champ.

If you want a home apache server that's super quiet and you can shove it in a small place, why not try mac mini? I've used Free BSD in the dot com days so I'm very comfortable and I trust Free BSD over Linux. (Yahoo used to use it extensively after long testing/eval).

For a linux/Windows mixed user, Mac OS-X is the best OS. I used to have linux box, and Windows box. Besides gaming and work specific needs, I no longer power on either of the box as I've migrated all the main day-to-day work over to mac mini. (Yes, I am using Apple Mail using gmail for pop support (just got my account last night!)).

Iggy

[Krypton]

Originally posted by chrisutley:
Apache comes installed on the machine, so the non-UNIX geeks among us that don't know how to build Apache from source can get up and running by simply going to the Sharing PP.

Bingo

[Mithras]

Originally posted by chrisutley:
My feeling is that the Mini is major overkill money wise for what you are apparently doing with it. If you have extra money to throw at it, and prefer the Mac - sure I guess it's great. If money is an issue, you'd be far better off with a cheap PC running Linux or FreeBSD.

I dunno, the mini IS cheap, and it's small and quiet, which is definitely not true of cheap PCs.

I think it's a great idea.

[osxisfun]

and he can turn it into an itunes server if he likes. and etc etc other software programs.