OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19847/Apple_Shows_off_Mac_OS_X_Server_Snow_Leopard Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:04:04 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com PowerPC http://osnews.com/thread?318078 http://osnews.com/thread?318078 But they STILL haven't answered if PowerPC is going to be supported or not! I've got a Quad 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 and don't feel its time for it to retire, does Apple? Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ValiantSoul) Comments ZFS http://osnews.com/thread?318080 http://osnews.com/thread?318080 So it seems ZFS is now official for Mac OS X server, is this the case for Snowleopard too? Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kernpanic) Comments RE: PowerPC http://osnews.com/thread?318083 http://osnews.com/thread?318083 I think a better way of looking at things is does your G5 meet your requirements? Does Snow Leopard offer anything that would make you more productive to the point where a hardware upgrade would be a good idea? Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vimh) Comments If a Tree Falls in the Forest... http://osnews.com/thread?318089 http://osnews.com/thread?318089 ... and nobody hears it. Does it exist? Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments ZFS Boot Support http://osnews.com/thread?318093 http://osnews.com/thread?318093 I wonder if you'll be able to boot into ZFS? I further wonder if they will manage to make it to where a ZFS partition can be your primary partition?

Can storage be removed from a Z pool without risking data integrity such as an external hard drive?

Can ZFS be used with meta-data tagging or even a WinFS type metadata system? Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (asupcb) Comments RE: PowerPC http://osnews.com/thread?318094 http://osnews.com/thread?318094
But they STILL haven't answered if PowerPC is going to be supported or not! I've got a Quad 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 and don't feel its time for it to retire, does Apple?


Screenshots show all applications, minus BootCamp to be Universal. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tyrione) Comments RE: ZFS Boot Support http://osnews.com/thread?318099 http://osnews.com/thread?318099
Can storage be removed from a Z pool without risking data integrity such as an external hard drive?


You probably shouldn't put internal and external drives into the same pool. I saw a slide claiming that the ability to remove disks will (finally) appear in Solaris in September. You'll be able to remove a disk as long as the free space in the pool is larger than the size of the disk.

Can ZFS be used with meta-data tagging or even a WinFS type metadata system?


ZFS supports extended attributes; it's no BeFS but AFAIK it's better than HFS+. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments RE: PowerPC http://osnews.com/thread?318103 http://osnews.com/thread?318103
But they STILL haven't answered if PowerPC is going to be supported or not! I've got a Quad 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 and don't feel its time for it to retire, does Apple?


It's likely the PowerPC G5 series are the last of the PowerPC machines to be supported, even if they can't support the full 64-bit address space.

They probably won't answer the question until the last minute when they learn it for themselves. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments RE[2]: PowerPC http://osnews.com/thread?318118 http://osnews.com/thread?318118

It's likely the PowerPC G5 series are the last of the PowerPC machines to be supported, even if they can't support the full 64-bit address space.


The PowerPC 970 (G5 in Apple parlance) does support both 32-bit and 64-bit Power ISA, so there shouldn't be any technical reasons why they couldn't. Supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit is actually quite a bit simpler on the 970, as it is able to switch between those modes on the fly.

Plus, 10.5 all ready supports a 64-bit Power runtime for userland, and so 10.6 just seems to be bringing 64-bit to the kernel as well. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rorya) Comments RE[3]: PowerPC http://osnews.com/thread?318186 http://osnews.com/thread?318186
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It's likely the PowerPC G5 series are the last of the PowerPC machines to be supported, even if they can't support the full 64-bit address space.


The PowerPC 970 (G5 in Apple parlance) does support both 32-bit and 64-bit Power ISA, so there shouldn't be any technical reasons why they couldn't. Supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit is actually quite a bit simpler on the 970, as it is able to switch between those modes on the fly.

Plus, 10.5 all ready supports a 64-bit Power runtime for userland, and so 10.6 just seems to be bringing 64-bit to the kernel as well. "

Yes, the 970 and 970FX support both ISAs but they also support a 42-bit address space. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments Server http://osnews.com/thread?318332 http://osnews.com/thread?318332 Wonder if Apple will finally make 10.6 server installable on off the shelf Intel / AMD hardware. I like the Mac server but don't want to buy a Mac just for that. But I would buy the OS if I can put in on an HP or Dell server.

That would be sweet.

Also with all this 64 Bit talk, wonder how that is going to affect 32 bit apps. Is it going to be like some other 64 Bit OS's where it's all or nothing. Or will they have a run time like Rosetta that will allow 32 bit apps to run? Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Windows Sucks) Comments