Apple reveals G5 teething problems
Spinner
Birmingham, UK
Apple has published information detailing a list of support issues affecting G5 Power Macs, confirming that no version of Mac OS X Server is currently supported on the machines.
The full report:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6840
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6795
"The Power Mac G5 computer is not supported for use with any version of Mac OS X Server 10.2, or any earlier version of Mac OS X Server. Mac OS X Server 10.3 will be supported on Power Mac G5 computers."
"Power Mac G5 computers require Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5), which is made specifically for this computer. Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5) cannot be installed on other computers, and other versions of Mac OS X 10.2 (both server and client) cannot be installed on the Power Mac G5 computer."
The full report:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6840
Related News:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6795
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Good thing they're so easy to use right out of the box!;D
I'll bet that "blueberry" color made a big difference in perception, if not performance...
Apple has a line of actually very excellent servers. They are very powerful 1U rackmount boxes called the XServe, but they are a bit pricey (surprise)
www.apple.com/xserve/
"Value" is not one of the things they are interested in. This is going to border on the political (and I will not respond to rebuttals here), but I think the chief reason for their survival is due to the fact that so much spending on "Education" is controlled by bureaucracy.
They wiped our nose, let's wipe theirs.:rolleyes2
How did they manage that, to make it a server?
I'm not sure what you mean... yes, there was the major rehaul that went along with OS X (a much-needed change, IMHO). But to my knowledge the classic MacOS will run on any PowerPC up to G4, and OS X runs on anything from the Beige G3s up.
I have an ancient (10+ years old) Mac SE at home that will run up to OS 7.5, and both my PowerMac 7200 (about 5 years old) and my PowerBook G4 (2 years old this summer) could run OS 7.5 with the correct extensions (drivers in Windows-language).
If you have information contrary to what I just said, I'd like to see it. I like to think I'm knowledgable about Macs, but I'm not the World Authority on them either.
It was used as a fileserver, so they just set up shared directories, like you can in Windows. Until recently the district was entirely Macintosh, so there wasn't a cross-platform issue.