For those of you who haven't been following the issue of how to get slash running on OS X, various Slashcode posters have been asking how to get it done for roughly 2 or 3 years now (essentially since the first preview of OS X was released). For the past year, a conflict between Apache::Cookie and Apache::Request on OS X has been the last obstacle to getting this done.
If anyone has put off a Mac purchase because of this, aren't you glad you waited? Now you can get a G5 to run your site on (as if you nee
From previous questioning here, it seems the most important limiting factor to running slash is RAM. How much RAM can you address with 64 bits?:) And dual G5's ought to do real nicely serving a big site like Slashdot.
On the other end, I've been given the impression that even a 7600/132 (since we're talking Macs) would be satisfactory for a more typical (read: less trafficked) slash site, given 256MB or more. So you're right, you don't need that much power.
IMO, the biggest obstacle to running Slash on a Mac OS X box that isn't really beefy is the GUI. Running in console mode will be a lot easier. Even when I used to run Slash stuff on a Linux box for development, the machine ground to a halt with X11 running.
Although on this dual-G4/1.25GHz/1GB RAM, it's pretty damned fast, even with the GUI.:-)
great news (at long last) (Score:1)
If anyone has put off a Mac purchase because of this, aren't you glad you waited? Now you can get a G5 to run your site on (as if you nee
Re:great news (at long last) (Score:1)
From previous questioning here, it seems the most important limiting factor to running slash is RAM. How much RAM can you address with 64 bits? :) And dual G5's ought to do real nicely serving a big site like Slashdot.
On the other end, I've been given the impression that even a 7600/132 (since we're talking Macs) would be satisfactory for a more typical (read: less trafficked) slash site, given 256MB or more. So you're right, you don't need that much power.
I wonder what the smallest machine that's ev
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Re:great news (at long last) (Score:2)
Although on this dual-G4/1.25GHz/1GB RAM, it's pretty damned fast, even with the GUI.
Re:great news (at long last) (Score:1)
Stop talking about your big phat boxes, you make me jealous. :)
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