Mac OS X Server 1.x is an OS in transition, half way between its NEXTSTEP roots and its Mac OS future. It looks kind of like Mac OS, but it behaves like NEXTSTEP. This will simply not do for an OS. You might be aware that Apple's current Mac operating system is based on UNIX.but the company's history with the platform goes back farther than you might.
What is Mac OS X DP2?
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Mac OS X DP2 is the second 'Developer Preview' release of Mac OS X (pronounced 'ten', not 'ex').
What is Mac OS X? The most common answer is that it's the 'client' or 'consumer' release of Mac OS X Server. (What is Mac OS X Server? Find out.) Like its server counterpart, Mac OS X is targeted at any Mac that Apple shipped with a PowerPC G3 processor or better. This means that Macs based on the PowerPC 60x processor are stuck with Mac OS 9.x--even if they've been upgraded with a G3 processor card. The scheduled release date for Mac OS X is (surprise!) a moving target. The current party line has Mac OS X on store shelves some time in 2000. I fearlessly predict that it will not appear until 2001 at the earliest (unless they decide to ship a half-finished product a la Mac OS X Server 1.0), but maybe I'm just a pessimist.
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What differentiates a 'consumer' or 'client' release of an OS from its 'server' version? In the case of Mac OS X, the answer is 'a lot.' Or rather, the answer had better be 'a lot,' because Mac OS X Server in its current state is absolutely unfit as a replacement for Mac OS 8.x/9.x ('classic' Mac OS). Mac OS X Server 1.x is an OS in transition, half way between its NEXTSTEP roots and its Mac OS future. It looks kind of like Mac OS, but it behaves like NEXTSTEP. This will simply not do for an OS that aspires to supplant classic Mac OS. Thus the need for Mac OS X, sometimes referred to as 'the real Mac OS X.'
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Unfortunately, Mac OS X DP2 is not that OS. It's simply an environment that allows developers to build and test their applications on an early version of the core of what will become Mac OS X. This being the case, certain traditional software review metrics make little sense: ease of installation, hardware support, feature count, even performance. This article will not be your typical review, or even your typical preview. There will be no step-by-step installation instructions, no comments on the lack of DHCP support, no guided tour of the networking setup, user account administration systems, and no benchmark graphs.
Mac OS X DP2 itself may not be the future of Mac OS, but it does provide a lot of information regarding the likely future of Mac OS X if you're willing to do a little digging. So let's get started.