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Now that QDNS runs on mac, the only software I'm waiting for is Office
for OS X. Apart from that I run X all the time, and never have a need
for classic. I'd like palm to come to X, but entourage will do. Other
than that it's made some things heaps easier. You can run the terminal
to do ssh and telnet etc as easy as pie, and RBrowser lets you do sftp
like it's a regular window.

Plus you can run apache, php, mysql, and phpmyadmin like it's a regular
linux box.

The benefits are (I find) outweighing the loss of no native office.
There's heaps of sites that will help you with OSX setup etc. start at
www.macsurfer.com ang go from there.

Nick

On Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 06:39 PM, Matt Henderson wrote:

> 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
>
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