[Cialug] Mac Mini Question

[Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com]

I've got one at home, too, and have been using it for semi-serious
development.  Just last night loaded up Tomcat and Eclipse, and started
working on a soap project using Sun's web services developer pack.  Have
previously played with Apache / PHP / Mysql on the thing, and haven't
had any problems.

Handles some command line operations similar enough to debian / ubuntu
to make working on it easy for me.

The PPC version I've got has a laptop harddrive, which is a drawback if
you expect blazing speed when loading things.  It's solid though.  Only
reboots have been caused by accidental unplugs or lightning.

=Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Stuart Thiessen
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 10:18 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mac Mini Question

I have a mac mini at home. I'd say it is more of an entry level machine.
Enough to do what is needed at that level. I've never had to do it, but
it has all the CD's you need to restore it back to factory conditions.

Stuart
Stuart Thiessen
Pass It On Services

Sent from my BlackBerry(r) wireless device    

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Perdue <tim06 at perdue.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:01:43
To:cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] Mac Mini Question

Anyone know if a Mac Mini is basically similar to an xserve as far as
the software goes?

I'm thinking of buying one to test compatibility with both safari web
browser and also the possibility of installing apache/php5/etc.

Does it come with an easy restore CD so you can put it back to factory
condition?

Believe it or not, I used to sell macs, but I haven't followed them for
years now.

Tim
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