Open Source

Okay, this time I've migrated completely to Ubuntu Server 6.06. (And it is much better.) The G4 was going crazy with MySQL hogging 100% CPU randomly and data corruption flying all over the place....even just a few days after being reinstalled. Luckily, everything is migrated over to the new box and I can redo the G4 as a pure AFP/SMB fileserver.

I think it's safe to say that that a 1GHz Pentium III beats out a 533MHz G4...maybe not for video rendering, but certainly for MySQL and Apache.

I have to say, the install for Ubuntu Server was relatively painless. I chose the LAMP installation, then later installed the SSH, FTP, PPTP and Samba servers along with Webmin to administer them all. Then I copied over the databases from the old machine. (I was rather shocked to find that the watchdog database had filled to 955MB of log entries accumulated over several months. That was TRUNCATE'd on the spot.) And, yes, oddly enough, I can PPTP from my Mac now instead of having to use XP in Parallels after moving from OS X Server to Ubuntu. Go figure.

Anyway, yeah, I'm really liking the new setup.

PowerPC G4 533MHz >>>> Pentium III 1GHz
Mac OS X 10.4 Server >>> Ubuntu 6.06 Server
Apache 1.4 >>>>>>>>>> Apache 2.0.55
MySQL 4 + PHP 4 >>>>>> MySQL 5 + PHP 5

As before, please let me know in the comments if you find this is much faster.