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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. 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 chrispy666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I tend to disagree.
    OSX server has its place on the market. Some people simply don't want to hire a whole IT dept. just to get a mail server or filesharing. In this case, since the server will be operated by non-unix-gurus, it has too look friendly to administer too. there you have it, OSX server.

    Plus, those blinking lights are simply coooooooool.

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  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?

    1. Re:Aqua Lite? by Pathwalker · · Score: 5, Informative
      If you were using an OSX box as a server, you would probably disable the GUI and run the system with a text console.

      You do that by editing /etc/ttys and uncommenting the first of these two lines, while commenting out the second:
      #console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure

      console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Cont ents/MacOS/loginwindow" vt100 on secure window=/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"
      (random spacing in the second long line inserted by slashdot's anti-page-widening code)

  4. you're thinking too hard by Petrox · · Score: 5, Informative

    or you could just type ">console" at the login screen and save yourself from futzing with loginwindow.app.

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  5. It must be more complicated than this by PDubNYC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I may not be the smartest man, but to make a statement along the lines of "Apple didn't understand the concept of permissions" seems a tad simplified, arrogant, and wrong. I have to believe that they had a very good grasp of what they were doing, but perhaps ran into problems in the implementation. Not trying to be a dick, but I think you have to believe that the engineers working on OS X understand the concept of permissions, even if they ran into a problem with them. I am sure they are under tremendous pressure to get things out the door. That said, the problem you mentioned was a huge one, and I look forward to the continued improvement of OS X, client and server, even as I pray for a new hardware architecture based on the "G5" or whatever.

  6. 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.