Tech query: running a Mac without a monitor

[hudebnik]

I believe we're about to take possession of a Mac G4 Tower without a monitor; my tentative plan is to use it as a file server. (This is really motivated by the desire for a keyboard, since my keyboard-cleaning experiment last week was less than totally successful; the computer comes as a bonus :-) I should be able to ssh into it, so I can administer the Unix side of things, but I don't know how difficult it is to administer the Mac side of things remotely. Paying $300 for Remote Desktop seems like overkill for my minimal needs. Has anybody on my tech-savvy flist done this sort of thing?

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[ubiq31.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, put another OS on there that doesn't care about monitors. You get some surprisingly good performance from non-Mac OSes on Apple hardware (though I'm as much a fan of OS X as anything else in the end, on Apple hardware).