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Apple Will Demo Mac OS X Server At WWDC

Posted by timothy on from the apple-a-day dept.

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."

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  1. Guess I have to ask by andfarm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What was wrong with file permissions under previous versions?

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    1. Re:Guess I have to ask by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      They [Apple] didn't understand the concept of group permissions - files copied to a sharepoint had read only group permissions, even if the sharepoint's permissions were defined as group r/w.

  2. Re:...from the oxymoron dept. by psyconaut · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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

  3. Aqua Lite? by cloudless.net · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

  4. Just don't use GUI by benwaggoner · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  5. Re:...from the oxymoron dept. by fdobbie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.