“Recently, I had a chance to sit down with a few folks from Apple Computer Inc. who gave me a guided tour of Apple’s upcoming server operating system, which is slated for release sometime in the spring of 2007. Mac OS X Server 10.5, or Leopard, will be the seventh release of the server operating system since 2000 and the second version to run natively on Intel processors,” Yuval Kossovsky reports for Computerworld.
“Leopard server is a 64-bit operating system that can seamlessly run 32-bit applications and extensions. Unlike other operating systems, there is just one version of the software, and any application and driver, be it 64- or 32-bit, will run natively and without penalty,” Kossovsky reports. “This iteration of the server operating system is not just Unix-based, but will be certified as UnixAE, meaning that it can run any Unix-certified application after being recompiled for the platform and does not require any modification to application programming interfaces or other code. Included in Leopard Server will be 64-bit versions of MySQL 4, MySQL 5, Apache 2 and improved 64-bit versions of Postfix and Cyrus for mail handling.”
Kossovsky reports, “Leopard Server will incorporate Apple’s Time Machine software as its backup system, enabling an administrator to easily configure, backup and restore files. Moreover, it will include a backup feature so that after a catastrophic failure involving the operating system drive, a backup can be restored to the desired point in time during the operating system build process — not as a postbuild action. That makes restoration a less complex and time-consuming process, something any admin who is sweating his way through restoring a crashed system will appreciate.”
Kossovsky reports, “Leopard server promises to be an exciting release with many new features for both the enterprise and small-business environments.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
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