Think you know the truth about Mac OS X Server? Find out as Ryan Faas counts down the top ten commonly held myths about Apple's server platform. Warning: while it's a decent article, it will make you click through 10 pages to get the 10 reasons.
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Member since:2006-01-04
While your issue is presented as if it were serious and unfairly restrictive it is both freely and easily solved. You may protest against this, seemingly unfair, situation by refusing to use the software on the basis of disagreeing with the EULA. There are in fact a [significant] number of alternative packages that are available under less restrictive licensing.
The real issue here is restricting yourself unnecesarily to certain specific software. This restriction is one of your own choosing and is easily defeated by making a more rational choice instead of voluntarily locking yourself into it.
My issue is one of substance and is much more fundamental as well as widespread: I object in principle to the use of silicon in computing. It is unnatural and discriminates against carbon. I only accept computing based on carbon devices!! No one is offering carbon based [machine] computing. It is posited that carbon-based devices will be available once the development of diamond strata progresses. This is simply a cover-up for further anti-carbon discrimination. The price will be prohibitive, locking most users *out* from access to carbon-based computing and even once it becomes affordable it will still be controlled by the manufacturers and will not be able to be implemented by those seeking freedom from silicon-based machines. Only those willing to support and subsidize these restrictive and unfair manufacturers will be able to participate in non-silicon [machine] computing.
If you wish to be taken seriously you must be willing to take on issues of actual substance and not just content yourself with complaining about verbiage that is extremely easy to circumvent. Please adjust your scope [of action] accordingly if you wish to be respected.
Member since:2005-07-06
While I can't be sure what all that garbage means in relation to the original post, the bottom line is simple.
Mac OS X Server has very poor support for virtualisation because you can't run OS X Server on another host OS. This means that putting it into a mixed environment of Linux, Windows and other operating systems that are already virtualised on VMware ESX, Xen or even KVM is going to be impossible. Like it or lump it, that's where your server OS needs to run nowadays. OS X Server is thus restricted to Mac only server environments, and there are precious few of them.
In view of that, the majority will take the route provided by the only decent point made in your post (via the scenic route): Don't use OS X Server as a host or as a guest, and don't use OS X Server full stop.
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2006-11-18
Great ... but you are still bundled with Apple hardware because of EULA, which makes virtualization "allow" useless really. It would be usefull if it will just be allowed, not allowed ONLY ON APPLE HARDWARE.