Search Again: MacOS X From: Matt Henderson Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Time: 1:40:10 am Hello All, This is quite off-topic, but the list traffic seems a little low right now anyway. I have two machines on which I'm considering the installation of MacOS X, and wanted to ask for advice regarding each. The first machine is our company's operational Macintosh, which at the moment runs the following network services software: + QDNS 3.5 + Stalker Internet Mail Server + LetterRip (mailing list processor) + WhistleBlower (server monitoring software) In addition, the machine backs up the other Macs on the LAN via Retrospect to a DAT drive, and runs Rebound to restart the machine when it crashes. This machine crashes about once every 1.5 months on average, which I find acceptable (but certainly not as acceptable as our Linux machines which stay up for years). Is there any compelling reason to install OS X on this machine, when QDNS is the only software that has an OS X version available? The second machine is my own Powerbook G4, on which I work eight to ten hours a day doing web application development and admin stuff. As I type this email, the machine is presently running its usual suite of concurrent applications: + BBEdit, DNS Expert, Graphic Converter, IE, Ircle, iTunes, MacSSH, Entourage, Excel, Word, NotePad Deluxe, QDNS Manager, SpellCatcher, URL Manager Pro, Vicomsoft FTP, Web Confidential, and VirtualPC. VirtualPC is required to run SuSE Linux 7.1, on which I have Apache, PHP and MySQL (our web application environment). To work on the web files, I share the Linux volumes with the MacOS via Netatalk running under Linux. For the two OS's to talk to each other on the same box (allowing the file sharing) requires a second network card running on the Powerbook (this is a limitation of VPC). At first I thought it might be attractive to run MacOS X on this machine to have Apache, MySQL and PHP in the native environment (allowing me to drop VirtualPC). But I'm wondering how much of a convenience and compatibility hit I'll take trying to run all my other preferred MacOS applications and extensions under Classic? Any tips, hints, strategies or experiences to share? Also, does anyone know of some good resources on the web that discuss MacOS X installation strategies (written for a bit more advanced audience than the usual tutorials), in terms of disk partitions, keeping the old 9.1 environment accessible, etc.? Many thanks in advance. (Chris, if this is *too* off-topic, just let me know.) Thanks, -- Matt Henderson -- MAKALUMEDIA INTERNET & ENGINEERING SERVICES GMBH matt@makalumedia.com | http://www.makalumedia.com/ Robert-Bosch Strasse 7, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany Tel: +49 6151 872 4600, Fax: +49 6151 872 4619 Tel: +34 952 764 278, Fax: +34 952 764 279 (Spain)

Messages In This Thread: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 30, 2001 at 1:40:10 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 30, 2001 at 1:55:14 am Re: MacOS X by Martin Fritze on May 30, 2001 at 2:24:13 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 30, 2001 at 1:52:29 pm Re: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 31, 2001 at 3:06:51 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 31, 2001 at 3:43:32 am Re: MacOS X by Global Homes Webmaster on May 31, 2001 at 10:13:26 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 31, 2001 at 4:56:43 pm Re: MacOS X by Steve Linford on Jun 1, 2001 at 1:38:15 am Re: MacOS X by Rob Gridley on Jun 1, 2001 at 9:48:41 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on Jun 3, 2001 at 3:49:07 pm