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Apple Will Demo Mac OS X Server At WWDC
epec254 writes "According to MacCentral the next new version of Mac OS X Server, based on Panther, will be previewed at the WWDC session 'Apple Solutions in Enterprise.' Maybe they will get file permissions right this time."
What was wrong with file permissions under previous versions?
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"POWER architecture doesn't even have it; it had to be hacked on in the 970, and is worse in some ways than the MOTO Altivec)"
;-)
I wouldn't exactly say it was "hacked on" and it's certainly not *worse* at comparible clock speeds to the Motorola implementation.
Maybe you can point us to some references?
Also, you don't think renderfarms benefit from Altivec? I know at least a few firms using small clusters of Xserves for rendering.
Yes, the current crop of Motorola processors are definitely lackluster, but let's keep our eyes on the road kids
-psy
Will Apple make a faster, simplified version of Aqua for the server? The current Mac OSX GUI seems very resource hungry. In Windows Server 2003, themes and many visual effects are disabled by default. Will Apple do the same for Mac OSX server?
I admit I haven't played around with OS X Server at all. Does it have a package of functions compareable to a windows domain? Like centralized user resources/authentification, GPO's, etc.? Or am I thinking outside of the scope of what it was intented to do? If I am, what is it inteneded to do then, just be a simple file/printer share server, web hosting?
Just curious.
I run a 10.2.7 Server for my email, FTP, etcetera. It's an old Blue and White G3 400, and it's plenty fast for me for everything I've done. And the GUI doesn't eat up cycles when the machine isn't being used hands on. I can ssh in and run top, and the Windows Server is only around 1%, even though it's plugged into a monitor, with a pre Quartz Extreme video card.
I really like the Mac server. Easy to administrate, with all the UNIX goodness lying just under the surface. And while I'm a generally technical guy, I'm certaily not an admin by nature.
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Actually, I heard that one WebObjects developer's Sun servers were up for renewal, so they replaced 3 mid-spec SPARCs with one xserve and got a massive performance INCREASE.
AppleMailServer still sucks. I hope they stick a GUI on Postfix/courier or something. ;)
Our OS X Server here got Postfix & Courier-IMAP installed right out of the box. Much easier to add SpamAssassin/procmail/etc and I don't have to deal with the AppleMail Server big-phat-file way of doing things.
what you are saying is that you know better than all of the engineers at Apple? Don't get me wrong, I think it sucks when something gets released that is not working properly. And if you want to write me off as some Mac-zealot, I couldn't care less. But the reality is that the people producing these products are individuals just like you and me, and I would like to think that they have some kind of pride in their work, not to mention the skills necessary to get the job in the first place, that would make them want to do the best job that they can.
Sorry I can't be as cynical about this as you are. I know damn well that Apple is a corporation that is there to make money, not worry about me. But I am looking at it, however naively, at an individual level, and trying to put myself in the employees shoes, where I have been. Sometimes your company doesn't give you the time or perhaps the resources to do things that you know need to be done. I was simply responding to someone who was talking like they know so much more than the engineers at Apple. whatever.
I think I hear your mom calling down to you in the basement. Breakfast is ready. She made waffles.