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OSX Server vs. Desktop OSX
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I'm curious to see what the difference between the two products are.
While OSX Server seems to have the following services that the desktop does not.
iCal Server, Wiki Server, Mail Services, Podcast Producer
Aside from those "extras" is OSX Server the same under the hood as OSX desktop or is its memory management setup to handle more background tasks. Does it have/use Time Machine?
I'm not looking to use Leopard Server instead of Leopard but rather I'm curious to know what the differences are.
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Apple - Mac OS X Server
That will give a lot of info about Server. It is essentially Desktop plus server features. Some of the services shared between Desktop and Server are tweaked for their respective environment.
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Thanks,
I've been reading that and the workup on developer.apple.com.
I'm still curious as to the differences between the two - if there are differences that is.
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I think there are some subtle differences in pre-installed software versions, as installing MySQL behaved differently on our server and my client. Anyway, this site has all kinds of Mac OS X server info that might interest you: AFP548 - Changing the world one server at a time.
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There are a few applications that will refuse to run on Mac OS X Server. I remember that iLife '04 and iLife '05 had restrictions on the installer which would prompt the user that it would refuse to install the apps. I remember reading that some 3rd party apps behave similarly. There are ways to circumvent this measure, though.
Other features that stand out in Mac OS X Server are the iChat (Jabber) Server, which allows you to setup a private Instant Messaging server (handy for a network), a Directory Server, VPN Server, and such. Under the hood, most of the tools found in Server are also in Client.
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If this is being analyzed in terms of dollars and cents, you might also want to take into account that it is possible to get iCal/Darwin Calendar server, Quicktime/Darwin Streaming server, Cyrus mail, and everything else working on Client. OS X simply provides a GUI for configuring these servers that provide a variable amount of flexibility. Darwin Streaming Server provides a web-based interface as well.
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Originally Posted by MacosNerd 
Thanks,
I've been reading that and the workup on developer.apple.com.
I'm still curious as to the differences between the two - if there are differences that is.
Uh, yeah there are differences. You said you read it but you can't see the stuff in OS X server? Hint, the stuff on the OS X server page doesn't ship with the regular version of OS X 
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