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OS X Mavericks Server Golden Master Seeded Ahead of October 22 Media Event

Makosuke said:
I'm really hoping they've improved SMBX file services for Windows in this release. When they replaced Samba with the homebrew version it was something of a disaster at my cross-platform lab--there are issues with Acrobat and some Office documents that were effectively impossible to work around, and I ended up needing to fall back to disabling SMBX and installing Samba. I'd much rather use the built-in solution, though.
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So do I, So do I...

On setups with the Adobe PDF problem, I changed a few settings on each Windows client's Registry which changes a timeout... and it basically patches the problem.

If you search for it... you will find it. Not sure about any Office problems that I recall. But do recall Quickbooks for Windows problems.

Crossing fingers that the SMB will be improved to something we can recommend. Argh!
 
MuchoMac said:
On setups with the Adobe PDF problem, I changed a few settings on each Windows client's Registry which changes a timeout... and it basically patches the problem.
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I saw your post detailing your fix--I believe it was in a thread I started. By the time I read it, though, I'd already given up and started using Samba, so never had the opportunity to try it. After a recent update my Samba install has developed difficulty adding new users, though--apparently it's gotten confused about which database it's using due to an old install--so an improved OSX release next week would save me enough time troubleshooting that I might consider forgoing the prudent waiting period before upgrading a production server with Mavericks.
 
kiantech said:
Hopefully the update from Mountain Lion to Mavericks server won't be has horrible as the update from Lion to ML. I swear I almost threw my mac out the window.
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Indeed. Hopefully it won't be a train wreck like so many recent software releases from Apple: OS X Server, Podcasts app, iPad Music app, iTunes 11 and Airport Utility 6.

All top-class disasters.
 
I wonder what's used in the backend for continuous integration. Jenkins?

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/xcode_guide-continuous_integration/000-About_Continuous_Integration/about_continuous_integration.html

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BRLawyer said:
Indeed. Hopefully it won't be a train wreck like so many recent software releases from Apple: OS X Server, Podcasts app, iPad Music app, iTunes 11 and Airport Utility 6.

All top-class disasters.
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Don't forget to include iOS 7 with its train wreck GUI!
 
D3TSURA said:
OS X server isn't it's own OS. Now it's pretty much just an app that you install.
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That's the sad part of OS X server these days. The old OS that was a server had different memory mapping, tuned kernel for better I/O and processing small memory chunks and would handle large databases a lot better. Many have thrown OS X out the window and gone with BSD and Linux.

We have dumped OS X for app development, use Linux and cross-compile, takes about 2/3 the time to compile, we have 50 machines that compile 24/7, saves a lot of money plus we can buy cheaper x86 hardware. OS X Server was far quicker at compiling apps than normal OS X.
 
Any idea about pricing for this? I noticed that the Lion Server app was called "Lion Server," but the Mountain Lion one was just called "Server." I was wondering if this was because the Mavericks one would also be called "Server" and you could upgrade it for free like a regular App Store app, of if they'd go back to calling it "Mavericks Server" or something and make you pay again.

I'd honestly be surprised if it was the first option, but given the naming, I'm just not sure what they were doing. Anyone know? (Or maybe they'll give up on the App Store distribution model for things like Server and Xcode since they're obviously using lots of trickery to get it to work, but I digress.)
 
I just want to point out, that in all my years of using computers... from the DOS 3 days all the way up to Windows XP for PC, and from Mac OS X Panther all the way to ML, I've never done a clean install when upgrading from a previous OS and I've never ever had a problem. Is a clean install better? Maybe. But it's also a pain. Even doing so on my phone (I clean update my phone only because I usually start with a late beta) it takes a better half of a day to get it to where all my apps download correctly and everything works OK. I don't have massive amounts of free time to screw with all that.

Just my 2 cents.

EDIT: I should add, I always upgrade to the latest version too. Yup, I even had Windows ME *deep shudder*.
 
Xerotech said:
Wouldn't it be better to fresh install any new operating system anyway?
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I agree 100%. I got my current system about 3 months after the new OSX at that time came out but instead of getting an install disc with the new OSX I got a disc with the old OSX and an upgrade disc for the new OSX (but without the new versions of iSoftware). I would absolutely demand that Mavericks be preinstalled on any mac and if I could not get that then I would wait until I could.
 
Still waiting on Server 3 to be released...

I have a Mavericks VM waiting on our Xserve (ESXi) waiting for Server.app
 
It's going be .1 releases for Mavericks and Server for me before I even look at it! I had just moved from SLS to ML+S this past June, I'm that paranoid. And it's just a home server! Looks like this may be an obvious upgrade, though.
 
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