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Think you the truth about Mac OS X Server? Find out as Ryan Faas counts down the top ten commonly held myths about Apple's server platform.

Warning: while it's a decent article, it will make you click through 10 pages to get the 10 reasons.

An interesting article has been making its way around the internet the past few days, titled "Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS".

Mac OS X indeed does some things very, very right, just like many other operating systems and graphical environments do some things very, very right.

The issue with the list of the article in question is that many of the items on the list are not exactly examples of "Usability Highs" at all.

VirtualBox is an open-source virtualization alternative to Parallels and VMWare in the MacOS X arena. Here is a step-by-step screenshot tutorial to installing Windows XP using VirtualBox in MacOS X.

An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X.

Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system.

Multi-core optimization, support for 16TB RAM (yes, Terabytes), and a language to allow developers to tap the power of the graphics processor are just a few of the key upgrades.

But you can't lift the floor and let people walk around where the floor used to be all at the same time.

Apple keeps on improving is Leopard operating system at a serious pace. The company released Mac OS X 10.5.4 today, with the standard blurb attached to it: "The Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.3 Leopard.

It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.

" The update includes fixes concerning AirPort, iCal, Safari, Spaces, and Expose. Software Update will bug you with the new release, or you can just start the updater yourself.

Apple has already announced the successor to Leopard, called Snow Leopard, during the WWDC not too long ago.

They explained that Snow Leopard would not focus on user-visible features, but instead would deliver performance improvements and resource footprint reductions.

One of the measures Apple has taken is the size reduction of application binaries, which has resulted in dramatic weight loss for a lot of applications.

AppleInsider has found out what exactly Apple has been doing to lose that much weight.

Apple has already announced the successor to Leopard, called Snow Leopard, during the WWDC not too long ago.

They explained that Snow Leopard would not focus on user-visible features, but instead would deliver performance improvements and resource footprint reductions.

One of the measures Apple has taken is the size reduction of application bundles, which has resulted in dramatic weight loss for a lot of applications.

AppleInsider has found out what exactly Apple has been doing to lose that much weight.

TestMac.net has published a quick look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard. "The biggest changes are under the hood. Snow Leopard is fast.

Very fast. Like, surprisingly fast. From boot times to general application usage, Snow Leopard was noticeably quicker then Leopard when using the same system.

Apple and 3rd party applications alike, they all launched faster and performed smoother. I'm sure this can be attributed to the new 64-bit architecture, but its amazing how much of a difference it really is." Screenshots included.

On OSNews, we try to steer away from speaking of specific security incidents, trojans, or viruses, unless they are in one way or the other special, or very influential.

Over the course of the past 12 months or so, many incidents concerning Mac security arose, but most, if not all, were lemons: they required the user to actively enter his administrator password, or to manually launch the malicious program.

In my book, these cases do not constitute as serious breaches of security, and hence, OSNews ignored them.

Although Apple is marketing Mac OS X Snow Leopard as an operating system update with "no new features," under the hood improvements will actually translate into a slew of new enhancements, five of which are described herein.