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In the FAQ, which details specifics about importing, editing, media management, export and purchase, Apple's tried to make one thing clear: some of the missing features will return with future software updates. Here are the answers to the most common questions we've heard."
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If you are lucky, you might be able to bodge drivers taken from a later OSX release into working on an earlier one. If you wish to run an OS that was released before a given piece of hardware, the drivers won't be included in that OS.
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Their install media come equipped with all drivers for supported models as of the OS release. That's the difference: With Windows, MS does bundle a variety of drivers-that-are-commonly-used with their install media, in order to improve the odds of things Just Working but the OEM you purchased the computer from, or potentially the OEM they purchased the chips from, are the actual providers of the drivers, and will have them available for whatever platforms they support. If the hardware platform drivers for your platform were released in conjunction with, say, 10.6, Apple will not bother to release a platform support package for running 10.5 on that hardware. I mean, When Apple releases a new hardware model, they release a slightly different spin of the OSX installer that includes drivers, firmware, etc. When I say "Does not support" I don't mean "Cry, cry, Apple's helpdesk monkeys won't talk to me because I installed version y OS on a version z computer!!!" The print server would seem to be one of the more important removals in functionality. And you can't publish printers to Open Directory. For example, Lion Server's CUPS cannot prioritize printers in the pool or set quotas for individual users or printers. Lion Server contains only the same ability to share printers found in every copy of Mac OS X client for the past five years: the open source Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), which gives Macs the ability to host shared print queues and simple pools of printers but lacks the enterprise features that previous print servers had. In Lion Server, Windows clients still have access to file sharing, but are now second-class clients.Īnother service that Apple deleted is the print server of previous Mac OS X Server builds. The PDC provided Windows clients with single sign-on authentication, and for those who work on both platforms, it gave users access to the same accounts and server-based home folders from their Windows PCs as well as their Macs. For years, Mac OS X Server's LDAP-based Open Directory had the ability to function as a primary domain controller (PDC) to support Windows clients. One of the more significant feature rollbacks comes in reduced support for Windows clients.