Welcome

With OS X, Apple has created an operating system full of possibilities. Apple Computer's OS X (pronounced OS ten) represents a quantum leap in computing power for the Macintosh platform. Based on Free BSD (UNIX), and borrowing from technologies developed at NeXT, Apple and the UNIX community, OSX brings a truly modern operating system to the Mac. It provides

This site is designed to provide a repository for systems administrators and people who support OS X at the University of Michigan. It is not intended to be a comprehensive guide of how to configure your system, but rather to provide guidance as to how others have approached installing OS X and possibly what things to avoid. You can navigate this site sequentially or use our table of contents page as a starting point.

This is a user supported site, and we encourage anyone who uses it to contribute. If you see a particular guide missing, please write it up and submit it. (Click here for instructions on how to format and submit an article for this site.)