On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 09:11 -0500, linux r wrote: > 1. I need to set up a mail server and also apache with a tiny site. > Can I run this on a G4 or G5 without too much of a headache? I have > never really messed with Mac's but I know there is a lot of friendly > overlap between the linuxes/BSDs etc, and macs in terms of software. > I am not a developer, more of a sysadmin, and if I have to spend too > many hours messing with it, forget it! Yes, you can RHEL3 runs on a PPC archs. No idea if WBEL does (this isn't the right list to ask, either) > 2. If so, would I need to get another <distribution> to run on a mac? > Would that be the wise thing to do here? Or can I just get a version > of White Box ? I don't think there is another version out there, but > I am wondering if that is necessary, of if I can just load with the > 'regular' i386 version that I have. [In case you are wondering I do > not have the machine with me, otherwise I would try it myself.] There's yellow dog, Ubuntu (highly recommended), or even good 'ole Fedora Core on your Mac http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html > 3. If you read the White Box site, it has some pretty attractive > message about being able to avoid the 'upgrade treadmill' until at > least Oct. 2008. Your thoughts, please! Probably true, as long as RHEL3 is supported by RH, with the SRPMS being released, WBEL can rebuild them > 4. And let's say that I DO have to pay Red Hat for one server > license.. out of curiosity....any idea what that might cost? This is > a nonprofit-to-be and there are absolutely no funds at the moment and > for the foreseeable while. I think RH only sell AS for the PPC platform, because they target the IBM (p|i)Series so it might be pretty darn costly If I were you, and its a non-profit, get a cheaper x86 box and have that sitting as the server -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
