![]() ![]() The Mac mini server was no slouch in terms of speed, but the virtual machine on Apple Silicon is insanely fast. Will be fine for a file server but I’m glad I built a beefy compute server for real work. To be honest, the Ubuntu virtual machine installation went much smoother than the Windows installation, primarily because Ubuntu Linux knew immediately how to resize the VM screen to fit the MacBook Air at its highest resolution. Anyway the system has a i5-3210M CPU which apparently is pretty weak, despite having 2 honest cores in it. And terminal responsiveness was like 10 seconds at a time, although maybe it’s partly the Linux scheduler to blame for that. But trying to rsync 300GB of files over gigabit ethernet to it basically pegged the machine the poor SSH process with the network connection was using 50% CPU even after I told it to use arcfour encryption, supposedly the fastest available. The Plex server seems OK, and it can transcode 1080p video at 5x real time or better. I’m pretty unimpressed with how slow this Mini is, now that I have an OS I understand on it. And it did enough other magic things on repartitioning I was afraid to try to roll my own. Ubuntu’s automagic partitioner doesn’t give you a way to resize the swap partition, you’re stuck with it being the size of system RAM. The WiFi adapter doesn’t work, of course, although maybe the non-free drivers I was advised I could install fix that. The solution is to add nomodeset to the kernel command line in GRUB.Īlso a few minor problems. ![]() Dumb, particularly the lack of a useful console message. That error is a red herring though really it’s hanging trying to change video modes. The one real problem I ran into was the new system hung at boot right after adding swap. And I just wiped the whole disk and removed any vestiges of the MacOS boot loader, I imagine it’s a bit trickier if you care to preserve MacOS. It mostly went pretty smoothly, Ubuntu makes bootable images for Mac hardware that work fine off of USB keys. I finally gave up on MacOS for a Mac mini server I have and wiped it and installed Ubuntu 14.04LTS. ![]()
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