On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:

My assumption was that he still intends to use the Mac. Personally
buying a Mac to run Linux purely strikes me as a colossal waste of
money

On Thursday, March 24, 2011, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 05:45, [Brainiac] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello skunks,
>
> A client has asked me to set up a server for some specific tasks. My poison will be Debian, Postgres and a host of very un - steve jobs applications. (Including openbravo ERP). I seek from the experts here the demerits of saying.. ok, we can use one of your existing machines as the server (In this case a Mac OS desktop).
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> I know it is technically possible to run linux on these machines, is it foolish to try? or should i just stick to good ole HP servers...
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> Why complicate things when all those apps you want to run can also be run natively on a Mac? OS X is Unix, and a better one at that.
> I suppose if you'd like to run Linux, just get hardware for it, unless the Mac is a server and yu have little leeway.
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> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254733744121/+254722743223
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> Damn!!
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>
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