I agree. I use the mac-mini in a windows environment and find that I pretty much never need to go back for anything. The builtin Samba, NFS, Apache, SSH is truly great.<br><br>I like Safari, but it has a few things that are just kind of wierd. I use Camino (Mozilla's Mac-Centric browser) and I absolutely love it. Very Safari like, but uses some of the more conventional things that I've grown fond of in Firefox.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan Baker</b> <<a href="mailto:ka_klick@mac.com">ka_klick@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It uses a fairly recent Samba (3.x) for windows style networking. But<br>with a bit nicer interface than most *nixes.<br>TCP/IP is pretty painless. IPv6 support is there out of box, has built<br>in one-click ssh, ftp and apache as well, also NFS, etc. so, it
<br>networks nicer than XP for my money. MS provides a nice RDP client for<br>it too, so you can even do remote windows sessions, it's pretty slick.<br><br>I use a Mac laptop as my primary workstation on a Windows/Samba network
<br>where this (and our Xserve web server) are the only 2 macs in the<br>place. Rarely need to use the XP machine sitting next to it, and I'm<br>the network admin here.<br><br>I love Safari and use it almost exclusively on the Mac. Firefox,
<br>Mozilla, Opera are all still good and viable options as well, though IE<br>is now officially dead on the platform - Hopefully that will help<br>pressure some IE-centric websites, but probably not much. Hopefully<br>soon they'll release the official version of webkit (safari's core)
<br>that passes the ACID2 test.<br><br>On Oct 20, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Dieke, Steve wrote:<br>> I have been thinking about it as well but also have been hesitant. How<br>> is the networking aspect? I assume it can connect to XP and *nix
<br>> systems with relative ease? Also how do you like Safari?<br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">
cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>] On<br>> Behalf Of Tony Bibbs<br>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:37 PM<br>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: mac-mini?<br>><br>> Yeah, simple application. Figured it'd be considerably cheaper than a
<br>> G5 laptop. Got the keyboard/mouse taken care of.<br>><br>> --Tony<br>><br>> Bryan Baker wrote:<br>>> Don't have a mini, but do know Macs.<br>>> If you're not expecting a screaming gaming rig, the mini should be a
<br>>> good way to dip a toe in.<br>>> One caveat, the KB & Mouse will need to be USB - you probably have a<br>>> mouse that fits the bill, but maybe not a KB and the mini is BYOKB&M.<br>>> It should come w/ a DVI to VGA adapter, so an existing XGA or DVI
<br>>> monitor should work fine.<br>>><br>>> One bonus, if you decide you don't like it, you could use it as a<br>>> fancy DVD player/media center, and there's always PPC linux. Macs also<br>><br>
>> tend to hold a bit more resale value than PCs.<br>>><br>>> One other down side of the mini's is they are G4's, but as I said, if<br>>> your needs are modest, they're fine.<br>>><br>>> On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
<br>>><br>>>> I've been hesitant to jump into a mac desktop or laptop for the sheer<br>><br>>>> cost and the change it would impose on me. However, my wife and I<br>>>> are looking at buying or building a relatively cheap PC for our kids
<br>>>> and one we could wire our ipods up to. I immediatley thought this<br>>>> might be a good excuse to buy a mac-mini...it would help me determine<br>><br>>>> if I like mac's, has decent games for the kids and, obviously, would
<br>>>> work fine with our ipods.<br>>>><br>>>> Figured I'd ask if anybody on this list has a mac-mini and, if so,<br>>>> what they think of it.<br>>>><br>>>> --Tony<br>
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