Search Again: Re: MacOS X From: Martin Fritze Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Time: 2:24:13 am Hi! Buy Stalker Communigate Pro it runs on OSX, a great piece of software. Atb Martin Fritze > 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

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