Mac OS X Server
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Mac OS X Server is a series of discontinued Unix-like server operating systems developed by Apple Inc. based on macOS. It provided server functionality and system administration tools, and tools to manage both macOS-based computers and iOS-based devices, network services such as a mail transfer agent, AFP and SMB servers, an LDAP server, and a domain name server, as well as server applications including a Web server, database, and calendar server.[4]
Developer | Apple Inc. |
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Written in | C, C++, Objective-C, and HTML for settings |
OS family | |
Working state | Discontinued on April 21, 2022 |
Source model | Closed-source (with open-source components) |
Initial release | March 16, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-03-16) |
Final release | 5.12[2] / December 8, 2021 (2021-12-08) |
Available in | English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Traditional Chinese[3] |
Platforms | |
Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) (mostly monolithic) |
Default user interface | Aqua |
License | Commercial proprietary software |
Official website | Mac OS X Server at the Wayback Machine (archived 2020-11-09) |
Starting with OS X Lion, Apple stopped selling a standalone server operating system, instead releasing an add-on Server app marketed as OS X Server (and later macOS Server), which was sold through the Mac App Store.[3][5] The Server app lacked many features from Mac OS X Server, and later versions of the app only included functionality related to user and group management, Xsan, and mobile device management through profiles. The Server app was discontinued on April 21, 2022, and Apple said that later versions of macOS would drop support for it.[2]