Think you know the truth about Mac OS X Server? Find out as Ryan Faas counts down the top ten commonly held myths about Apple's server platform. Warning: while it's a decent article, it will make you click through 10 pages to get the 10 reasons.
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Member since:2007-07-31
I have RealVNC client on linux connecting to vineserver on 10.5 server and it's PDQ even on a modded 450mhz G4 cube.
It used to be sluggish with the old RVNC but for some reason its actually quite usable now.
My gripe with OSX server is that most of the remote monitoring stuff is reserved for apple xserves... which sucks ass. Am I right you can get a headless attachment for G4/G5 mac pros? maybe that adds that feature back in.
To be fair other than the dashboard widget, most of the remote monitoring software that doesnt work wouldn't be usable outside a rack -- a good chunk of it does.
I did once setup a clustered Xgrid system of different flavours but gave up after I couldnt find anything to run on it other than a sample calculation 
1x G4 450mhz cube 1.5GB ram leo server acting as head and then the below as nodes
1x 1.8 ghz athlon XP running windows XP (1GB mem)
1x 2.2 ghz amd FX53 running linux (2GB mem)
1x 2.4 ghz macbook pro (2gb) running leo client
So I'd say that was pretty scalable... another example would be that American Uni that bought an Xgrid of 1024 nodes ... ( I cringe at the thought of that powerbill)
Member since:2005-11-21
It used to be sluggish with the old RVNC but for some reason its actually quite usable now.
My gripe with OSX server is that most of the remote monitoring stuff is reserved for apple xserves... which sucks ass. Am I right you can get a headless attachment for G4/G5 mac pros? maybe that adds that feature back in.
To be fair other than the dashboard widget, most of the remote monitoring software that doesnt work wouldn't be usable outside a rack -- a good chunk of it does.
I did once setup a clustered Xgrid system of different flavours but gave up after I couldnt find anything to run on it other than a sample calculation
1x G4 450mhz cube 1.5GB ram leo server acting as head and then the below as nodes
1x 1.8 ghz athlon XP running windows XP (1GB mem)
1x 2.2 ghz amd FX53 running linux (2GB mem)
1x 2.4 ghz macbook pro (2gb) running leo client
So I'd say that was pretty scalable... another example would be that American Uni that bought an Xgrid of 1024 nodes ... ( I cringe at the thought of that powerbill)
How the hell do you create product differentiation amongst hardware vendors if your own software tools run on competing hardware solutions?
Thinking does a body good.
Member since:2006-04-25
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2008-06-24
Interesting read. May give me a reason to 'hackintosh' up one of my systems, or run in a virtualized environment for fun (at home)
My biggest peeve, coming from an OSX user, is the fact that there is NO Remote Desktop client for Windows to connect to a Mac. I know you can use VNC, but we all know how 'great' vnc is compared with Windows RDP and OSX' Remote Desktop. Microsoft can go out of the way to make a client for mac to connect to Windows, so why can't Apple?