On (03/10/03 12:02), Mike Egglestone wrote: > Quoting Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either > > Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you > > would > > require a bit less downtime with Debian, since you would be able to just > > apt-get update && upgrade without rebooting most of the time, where OS X > > does > > require reboots after Software Update. However, those are pretty minimal. > > > > If you have performance benchmarks, please share them. > > When I refer to Debian being faster I should have been more specific. > I'm meant to say that clients interacting with the server is waaaay faster with > a debian server. Even an old PIII with 128 meg Ram on a 10 base network. > vs a new G4 with half a Gig of Ram. > When you have 30 clients login to the server at the same time, OSX server > copies the prefs over or something. In may take 2 minutes for a machine to > login. > As with netatalk, you can avoid appletalk protocol and just mount a share to > the desktop. You can't get the fancy features from Mac Manager but users get > home directories and other share points. (hand in folder etc.) > Are the features of Mac Manager worth the purchase of OSX Server? > I don't think so. I'm the one that has to support the box in the end, and why > should I pull my hair out administering OSX server when I know a Linux box can > do basically the same thing. > I believe the staff want the OSX box because its the latest greatest thing from > Apple. I can't comment to fully on the technical aspects (not qualified). However, I run Debian on two ageing LH Pro Servers, a Mac 8100/80, I use it as a file server on all three and it's rock solid. As a work station I use a G4 and managed to break OSX on it (inadvertantly). I now use woody on it with KDE3 almost exclusively.
You really need to address this question to debian-powerpc - there are some very knowledeable people on the list who could give you plenty of ammunition. Mac hardware has many positive qualities and if your people want a shiney Xserve they can have it and you can have debian on it ;) There was recently a 10.2 upgrade that Apple had to pull because it was causing machines to crash...... Good luck Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
