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Jaguar Brings Back AirPort Software Base Station

Posted by pudge on from the one-of-many-things dept.

EelBait writes "I'm surprised that few people have picked up on this, considering how much noise was made when Software Base Station was unavailable on previous versions of Mac OS X. But, as I was reading through the 'and more' section of the list of new Jaguar features, I came across the AirPort Software Base Station item. You'll need to scroll down to the Networking section. You'll also see things like IPv6, IPsec, PAM, and Active Directory." Bringing back this and USB Printer Sharing are two of the many good things about 10.2.

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  1. IPsec with AirPort by SiMac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be sort of interesting if Apple added IPsec support to the AirPort base station (or at least the software base station.) It was shown a while ago that WEP was insecure, and IPsec seems like a much better way to secure a network, as long as the speed hit isn't too big. I've wondered why no other hardware vendors (with the exception of Cisco, with LEAP) have tried to make a more secure version of 802.11b...Perhaps Apple could lead the way here?

  2. Re:Sheesh by PeekabooCaribou · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OS X has been a dependable, full-featured OS since version 10.1. I'll be the first to admit that pre-10.1 was sluggish and not ready for prime-time. It's now fast, has a large base of native applications, and it's becoming increasingly mature with each release (as good software tends to do).

    I don't think OS X should be weighed so heavily against OS 9. For every feature that we lost in the transition to X, we gained two improvements.

    As for people still stuck with machines that can't run OS X.. I don't know, I can't even imagine taking four or five years between buying new computer hardware.

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  3. How many of Jaguar's "150 new features..." by dpbsmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...are actually just OS 9's old features?

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    1. Re:How many of Jaguar's "150 new features..." by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's getting tiring to hear about people saying "OS 9 could do this and OS X can't blah blah blah." This used to be very bad before 10.1 was released, but I do not blame anyone for this as 10.0.x was not truly a complete commercial OS. However, since 10.1 was released, there really has been no competition: for users with machines capable of running X (basically any G3 with decent RAM), OS X is an excellent choice. All major applications (or quality alternatives) now run native, there is no major slowdown as in 10.0.x, and you get to enjoy all the great things that are exlusive to OS X like Aqua and Unix. I used 9 for pretty much it's entire lifespan until X came out and even though I loved it, I'll never go back to an OS where I need to reboot bare minimum once a day and can't multitask. If you want to deal with this in order to use a couple minor features that aren't yet in OS X, go right ahead; it's your loss, not mine.

  4. Re:That's wonderful. by jkujawa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, Microsoft sold their Apple shares quite a while ago.

    At a very healthy profit.