Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store

Re:Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store by lostlogin on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:43PM (#22772710)

> and can't be messed up by employees who think it'd be neat to run local native apps on it, "since it's a computer just sitting there."

Synology actually encourage this. In particular, the Docker package is great and all sorts of uses have cropped up. There are some gnarly rough edges that I have encountered but that package and others make the unit very useful. I’m a home user so it’s a different use case, but my 918+ is probably my favourite machine ever.

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Re:Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store by matthewmcg on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:50PM (#22772777)

It's our digital Swiss army knife! Need somewhere to run homebridge or pihole and don't want a pile of raspberry pis sitting around? Get the docker containers for these. Ditto for Plex and Roon servers. I even found a container that works as a replacement for the deprecated software that my ancient multifunction printer needs for its "one button" scan functionality.

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Re:Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store by rolleiflex on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:57PM (#22772848)

Ditto for this. I have the 916+ (I think) with the 8Gb ram upgrade, and it’s a very nice Docker container runner indeed.

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Re:Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store by lostlogin on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:07PM (#22774807)

I put an 8gb stick into mine, giving it 12gb. Officially it only supports 8gb but it seems to use more just fine, 10+ containers can be taxing at times.

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