Introduced 20 years ago, it has just had its second major redesign and a huge boost in capability. Now used for cloud and colocation services, and widely as a server and desktop of choice.
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A/UX was released for the Mac II in 1988, then in 1993 Apple changed course with a series of servers, before Mac OS X Server in 1999 and its first Xserves in 2002.
An extended tutorial-review of Mountain Lion Server, OS X Server 2.2, written in 2012-13, with copious screenshots.
macOS 13.0.1 is the first small security update to Ventura, although it still seems large. What’s going on, and where are macOS updates heading?
Running Linux on an Apple silicon Mac may now be straightforward, but it presents challenges for installation and management.
Running a Mac as a server supports all the features of HFS+ and APFS, services such as Content Caching, and spares us from learning Linux. But does it work?
The first version of its predecessor, NetInfo, also handled DNS lookups. When they failed, users found they were locked out of everything else. This has improved!
Last week, most of the servers around the world were found to have a serious vulnerability which is trivial to exploit. Even iCloud was affected. How does it affect you?
Failure to send outgoing mail to an SMTP server is an occasional problem which can be tricky to solve. Here are some clues, and a magic solution.
Apple says that macOS Server is changing, then warns that almost all its services will be removed. After 19 years, is this the end?
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