Apple will include ZFS in OS X Leopard, Sun confirms
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Blog: Sun says that Apple's forthcoming Leopard operating system will use the next-generation file system called ZFS
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More details have emerged about Mac OS X 10.5, the next major update to the Mac operating system that Apple has dubbed "Leopard." While Leopard won't be let out of its cage until October, two Steve Jobs keynote addresses and Apple's Leopard web site have given us some idea of how this latest cat will behave.
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Features including Directory Services and Groups set up in Mac OS X Server will be respected by the virtual machines running on any given Xserve, making it easier for IT managers to configure multiple operating systems.
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The client version of Mac OS X 10.5 isn't the only Leopard release slated for October 26. There's also the new version of Mac OS X Server. John C. Welch previews the latest version of Apple's server software and lets you know what to expect.&lt;br /&gt;
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New builds of Mac OS X version 10.4 have been seeded to a select group of developers, according to a report by AppleInsider. The new operating system, code-named "Tiger," is currently being tested by Apple's elite and the development builds feature Jabber support in iChat, as well as extended RSS support in Safari 2.0. Many changes in development release have appeared since Tiger's debut at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in June.
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The near-final version of Mac OS X Leopard, unveiled today at the World Wide Developers Conference, introduces over 300 new features. They include a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks; an updated Finder featuring Cover Flow and a new way to easily browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to rapidly preview most files without opening an application; Time Machine, a new way to easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac; Spaces, a powerful new feature to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; and enhanced iChat and Mail applications, which easily allow users to communicate even more creatively. Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major release of the worldâs most advanced operating system, is scheduled to ship in October.
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One of the new features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is called Spaces. Columnist Ryan Faas takes a look at what the virtual desktop technology will offer Mac users once it becomes available in 2007.
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The user version of Mac OS X v10.5 &quot;Leopard&quot; took center stage during Apple CEO Steve Jobs&#39; keynote address to developers at this week&#39;s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) but it wasn&#39;t the only news. Apple also revealed new features of Mac OS X v10.5 Server, or [
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Apple showed off lots of new features of its upcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X at WWDC on Monday. Here's a look at some of the highlights.
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â
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Apple touts 11 specific features it says will make Leopard secure.
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In his latest post, Jeff Moore talks about a much needed upgrade to a popular operation system (the Leopard version of Mac OS X) and something that it brought with it as a default - a version 5 installation of PHP (5.2.4 in fact).   His post is a guide to setting up a development environment on your newly upgraded system. He's broken it up into quite a few steps:   Enable Developer Tools Editing Configuration Files Enabling PHP Starting Apache Visiting our Web Site Showing the World Enabling a Personal Website Virtual Hosting Sharing with the World, Part II Installing MySQL Bring the mysql.sock to PHP Where is PEAR? PHP .ini configuration   Don't worry, each of the sections in the list don't have much more than one or two paragraphs under them and they're loaded with links to help you through some of the more detailed points.
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These are the major Leopard stories as reported by Macworld, PCWorld and wire services
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Derrick Story writes for the O&#146;Reilly MacDevCenter, summarizing a Mac OS X Tiger preview recently presented to the O&#146;Reilly Mac OS X Conference by Apple product manager Chris Bourdon. [Nov 17]
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MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that it is shipping its Xsan Storage Area Network (SAN) file system, now available for US&#36;999 per client and per server. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system that enables Mac OS X Server users to share files and volumes up to 16 TB (Terabytes) in size on a Fibre Channel network. Apple also announced an upgrade to its rack-mountable Xserve G5 file server, upping the top-end and "Cluster Node" configuration's processor speed to 2.3GHz and its system bus speed to 1.15GHz.
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While the improvements to Mac OS X Leopard desktop are not expected to be revolutionary, the enhancements to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server are impressive.
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A file system loved by all Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz may have let the cat out of the bag on Apple's plans for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard's file system. While showing off the Zettabyte File System in Sun's 'Thumper' hybrid storage/server platform at a company event in Washington today, Schwartz let it drop that Apple too has big plans for the open source file system.â¦