Apple has dropped the requirement that macOS must run, bare metal or virtualized, on genuine Apple hardware for Amazon AWS.
The image Apple has provided is locked to AWS and can't be used to boot non-Amazon machines.
The move comes after several state Departments of Educations threatening to drop Macs from schools due to lack of cheap, centralized, hosted administration server options for Mac.
macOS servers look slick as fuck. Shame they don't care about making a decent server OS.
I'm surprised they even care that much, to be honest. My understanding was that cornering the education sector was like getting you first score on the cheap so that the dealer has you hooked for years. But it's no longer exposure to the OS which gets young adults to buy (or have bought for them) Macbooks. It's fashion.
I guess maybe university fine arts programs might still get students suckling on Apple's teet but that wouldn't have anything to do with DoEs.
Weird. I'm thinking it's a different motivation than what you just provided.
Nor a decent OS.
Sever operating systems don't need a GUI wtf
I think it has something to do with ipads and k-12 probably
I've heard from one of my exes, a teacher who then went into state-wide education administration stuff, that those were a disaster and practically all abandoned once the service agreements were up. Apparently Chromebooks are doing much better in classrooms.
Regardless though, I still don't buy the connection between that and "cheap, centralized, hosted administration server options" as being the driving force. Still think they're making a much purer business decision with the AWS hosted servers.
I didn't even realize Apple was still developing a server edition of OSX
That's huge news
>can't be used to boot non-Amazon machines
I guess that's just a user agreement statement I doubt we won't be able to get this working on regular machines.
So what this means? well, hackintosh is basically more accessible now I guess?
Also OP is a fag for not providing a source.
Don't even give it heed either osx server was always just a dead codebase for consumer Mac osx and its not gonna change considering Linux and windows server dominate the internet-facing and private market
So this means hackintoshing will be even easier? It would be great if the fucking shits provided legacy USB drivers.
>The image Apple has provided is locked to AWS and can't be used to boot non-Amazon machines.
I'd also wish that you could make a hackintosh without the use of a mac as well
Not necessarily. It would be easier to create a proper hackintosh system IF the AWS files leak, but still wouldn't be ready to go
Try using just a VM
Ah ok.
Finally you can setup a proper ci/cd environment for Xcode projects without sticking mac minis in random closets. I did a contract setting up pipeline for nearly 100 iOS apps at a mega massive pharmaceutical company and has to put a Mac mini in a cabinet above some managers desk. Lol their data center folks wouldn't let the Mac mini in the DC.
Link? Can't find a source for this.
God damn it op is full of shit.
>Lol their data center folks wouldn't let the Mac mini in the DC
Sounds pretty gay, yeah macs are lame but there do exist enclosures to rack a bunch of minis together clean and tidy.
Even seen an X-serve in the wild which a hosting company was taking care of.
Is there a source on this?
isn't it OSX server the same as the desktop OS?
No, OP is full of shit.