From: Jimmy Wales
I've just made "the switch" to a Power Mac G5, which is of course Unix "underneath". I'm interested in trying to get wikipedia running locally on this machine, for my own study.
How hard will that be? Has anyone tried it, or, barring that, does anyone have experience with OS X (10.3)?
I'm an OS X user; it shouldn't be too hard. Your life would be easier with OS X Server, since that provides nice widgets to configure Apache and the such. But none of that is needed; Apache is already installed, and MySQL and PHP run happily on OS X. I haven't bothered trying to set up MediaWiki (what can I say? I dislike PHP) but it shouldn't be much of a hassle.
Also, 10.3.1 is pretty nicely up-to-date with its installed *nix components/compilers etc. so life whould be pretty comfortable.
One of these days I'm going to rewrite MediaWiki to get back to Perl, I swear.
:)