Linux Magazine- June 02
There is an interesting reveiw of the TiBook (550) in the current issue of Linux magazine (on newstands now). It refers to OS X as...get this:
"Like Linux, but with a facelift and steroids" (paraphrased)
That's an AMAZING comment to make, considering the entire magazine is devoted to Linux! That one single sentence basically knocks the entire Linux OS down a notch compared to OS X in my opinion. The author REALLY likes OS X (and the TiBook)!
Has anyone else read this article?
"Like Linux, but with a facelift and steroids" (paraphrased)
That's an AMAZING comment to make, considering the entire magazine is devoted to Linux! That one single sentence basically knocks the entire Linux OS down a notch compared to OS X in my opinion. The author REALLY likes OS X (and the TiBook)!
Has anyone else read this article?
Comments
Brian
For example,
A new Dual 1Ghz G4 running OSX server took almost twice as long to create files, close files, lock/unlock files as a single processor 1Ghz Duron system running Linux. In fact the Dual G4 had almost 1000KB/s LESS throughput than the Duron box. CPU utilization was 4 times higher than the Duron as well.
Here's some more testing:
<a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:GfKBBQ-wcdoC:www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3513+apple+file+serving+helios &hl=en" target="_blank">Real World Test</a>
OSX will improve of course and it has other strengths but for now for file serving the best Apple has to offer is outclassed all the way by a 'value' PC running off-the-shelf Linux at a fraction of the cost.
<strong>Ok well let's not get too excited here about the "power" or "speed" of OSX. OSX is still quite slow and does not handle forking processes very well. It seems to cripple the 1GHz Dual G4 something awful for file serving.
For example,
A new Dual 1Ghz G4 running OSX server took almost twice as long to create files, close files, lock/unlock files as a single processor 1Ghz Duron system running Linux. In fact the Dual G4 had almost 1000KB/s LESS throughput than the Duron box. CPU utilization was 4 times higher than the Duron as well.
Here's some more testing:
<a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:GfKBBQ-wcdoC:www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3513+apple+file+serving+helios &hl=en" target="_blank">Real World Test</a>
OSX will improve of course and it has other strengths but for now for file serving the best Apple has to offer is outclassed all the way by a 'value' PC running off-the-shelf Linux at a fraction of the cost.
Well, that article you linked to is from 1999...
Anyway, I know MySQL is performing queries more than 10 times faster on this 350Mhz G4 with Mac OS 10.1 than it was on a 233Mhz Pentium II with Linux.
I had nothing to do with the linux box being set up, so I don' t know if there are any inefficiencies somewhere or not, but it was pretty fast on the G4. Of course, OS X still has a lot of optimization and improvements to be done and GCC is still writes pretty inefficient PPC code so I'm sure linux would be more efficient in many ways. However, I don't think sheer performance is what Apple is trying to market primarily. They are trying to market an easy-to-use UNIX first and foremost.
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Well, that article you linked to is from 1999...
Anyway, I know MySQL is performing queries more than 10 times faster on this 350Mhz G4 with Mac OS 10.1 than it was on a 233Mhz Pentium II with Linux.
I had nothing to do with the linux box being set up, so I don' t know if there are any inefficiencies somewhere or not, but it was pretty fast on the G4. Of course, OS X still has a lot of optimization and improvements to be done and GCC is still writes pretty inefficient PPC code so I'm sure linux would be more efficient in many ways. However, I don't think sheer performance is what Apple is trying to market primarily. They are trying to market an easy-to-use UNIX first and foremost.</strong><hr></blockquote>
We got our results two weeks ago. And in fact what is significant about the old 1999 stats is that even an "old" 1999 PC got just slightly better results than the new gual 1Ghz G4.
The great news about that is there is no need to buy a really expensive OSX DUal 1GHz G4 box for serving when a simple Linux PC will perform better. This leaves more money for more fun stuff.
Did I start a Linux VS BSD street brawl?