[150371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed Feb 22 17:09:43 2012
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: stb@lassitu.de (Stefan Bethke)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:08:52 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <0D3B245D-345F-4697-B17B-4844A9ADD984@lassitu.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Am 22.02.2012 um 22:48 schrieb Joe Greco:
> > You also don't have to
> > buy a MMS; the lower end Mac mini's are also plenty powerful, can be
> > upgraded similarly, but lack OS X Server and the quad core CPU.
>
> With 10.7, Server is now a $50 add-on download from the Mac App Store, no special hardware required.
I also haven't found it to be particularly *good* at anything; I'm not
an OS X guy, and maybe that's part of the problem, but I found Snow
Leopard Server a lot more comprehensible in a "this seems really un-Apple-
like but at least it makes some sort of sense" way.
OS X Lion Server feels like someone just bolted on random bits of server
management stuff. If you've ever managed a server with a poorly
integrated control panel, it reminds me a little of that.
I believe that there are plenty of people who ditch OS X entirely and do
other things with them. I wish ESXi would run on them. I could see
*uses* for that.
... JG
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