Install linux on mac mini core duo install#
Install linux on mac mini core duo full#

Install linux on mac mini core duo full#

The concept of containers makes it really easy to package up something - anything from a full working application like Homebridge, to a single shell script - and run it in its own space, so that the underlying OS is none the wiser. Mostly, itвЂ™s fun! I use Docker a lot at work, in various forms, so putting things in containers at home is a logical extension of that - it just makes sense to containerise all the things. The Mini does most of the compute work, and the NAS provides the disk and a few other bits. So my setup out there is the Mac Mini and a Synology DS418j with 4x 4TB of disk (12TB usable). Low maintenance and extreme ROI doesnвЂ™t even come close to what IвЂ™d had out of this little machine. Once itвЂ™s installed, it just lives on the network, in the loft in the studio, next to the NAS and the UPS.

Install linux on mac mini core duo install#

The hardest bit of the upgrade was finding a monitor (in this case, our TV) to do the install with. While that worked, I was basically not using the Mac for anything, so I switched out the OS to Ubuntu 18.04 (the current LTS) and ran the Docker containers on the bare metal. After a while I ran into some Mac-specific issues, so I fired up Virtual Box and ran Linux in the VM, with Docker containers inside that. With the advent of Docker, I started to run various services on it, mostly to learn about how it worked.

The SSD gave the old machine a big boost in performance. Over the years, I changed out the DVD drive and hard drive for a 256GB SSD, and a 500GB SSHD which I had spare. Since then, itвЂ™s been used for various things, mostly as a iTunes server, serving media to the Apple TV, or to store our music collection. It served me as a VMWare Fusion server for the 9 months or so I worked for them.

So I got a well specвЂ™ed (for the time) Mac Mini - Core 2 Duo, 500GB disk, 8GB RAM (the most it could take). We were doing email archiving - very much like AfterMail, where I met him - so I needed a machine which I could run Exchange and Active Directory on. In 2008, I left the BBC, and started working from home in London, for a friend in Denmark. I upgraded to an 8 recently, but mostly for the battery and because work (who provides my phone) had a spare one in the cupboard. Until recently, I had an iPhone 7, which was mostly perfect running iOS 12 - the battery could be better, but in general it was good. Sometimes, old hardware lasts a very very long time.