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It's an interesting approach to make the server utilities an add-on to the base OS X platform rather than a separate operating system as with Windows. Interest
by Osiris 13y ago
It's an interesting approach to make the server utilities an add-on to the base OS X platform rather than a separate operating system as with Windows.
Interesting features are "profile manager", which sounds like an LDAP server and the Mail/Calendar server to replicate Exchange functionality.
- niels_olson 13y agoYet it's very much what SuSE has been doing with YaST modules for years. Need an NTP server? click. Want to play around with NIS? click. Kerberos? Click.
- kbenson 13y agoIndeed, and Red Hat may have taken it a step farther (I'm not familiar enough with SuSe to know whether it's actually different) by providing different entitlements, which are really just repo subscriptions. Want access to the advanced server stuff, not the standard workstation utils, purchase that entitlement and you'll have new packages available to you. Install, use their configuration utilities, etc.
- ComputerGuru 13y agoI'm presuming you already know, but for the benefit of Mr Random Reader: it's been that way for a while now (as of OS X 10.7 Lion).