07-15-2013, 04:28 PM
JEBB,
I played with several Linux boxes over the years and found them all too complex for the average person off street. Even as a headless machine. That's why I have an old Mac Mini as a server running OS 10.7. It's been rock solid reliable and has only three apps running on it at a given time - iTunes, Crashplan and Plex. I use Mac OS X screen sharing to access the Mini for system updates and other tasks.
The Mini (and its Drobo) is tucked into the corner of my desk. No keyboard. No display. Just a hardwire network connection to a nearby router. I could run a video cable from it to the display I use with my tower via a direct connection or via a KVM switch. OS X screen sharing works well enough that I never bothered.
Robert
I played with several Linux boxes over the years and found them all too complex for the average person off street. Even as a headless machine. That's why I have an old Mac Mini as a server running OS 10.7. It's been rock solid reliable and has only three apps running on it at a given time - iTunes, Crashplan and Plex. I use Mac OS X screen sharing to access the Mini for system updates and other tasks.
The Mini (and its Drobo) is tucked into the corner of my desk. No keyboard. No display. Just a hardwire network connection to a nearby router. I could run a video cable from it to the display I use with my tower via a direct connection or via a KVM switch. OS X screen sharing works well enough that I never bothered.
Robert