Long story short — after two weeks of waiting, and a good few hours of ‘puter work, I’ve just upgraded my main mac (and webserver) to the newest version of Mac OS X, ‘Jaguar’ (v10.2).
What does this mean for you, the end-user? Um…nothing.
For me, though, it’s definitely a good thing. Even on my rapidly aging 350 MHz G3, the system is noticeably faster than prior versions of OS X were. Man, do I wish I could afford a newer machine that can actually take advantage of some of the optimizations built into this! Ah, well. Someday.
(Also, many thanks to two articles that helped me make sure I had everything up and running correctly under the new system: Apache Web Serving with Mac OS X and Setting up a site server with Jaguar, both from the MacDevCenter.)