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http://clustermonkey.org/~laz/pbook/rob.lmbench.tx t

Here are some LMBench benchmarks that someone did comparing multiple releases of Darwin, NetBSD, and Linux. The general pattern is that (surprise surprise) Linux is the fastest. NetBSD is about 2x slower than Linux. Darwin is about 2-3x slower than NetBSD.

It's slow in comparison to Linux on the same hardware. See the lmbench numbers at http://clustermonkey.org/~laz/pbook/rob.lmbench.tx t

http://clustermonkey.org/~laz/pbook/rob.lmbench.tx t

Here are some interesting performance benchmarks (using lmbench) comparing Darwin (aka Mac OS X), NetBSD, and Linux. Can you guess who came in first place? ;-)

lmbench 2.0 summary

The lmbench numbers show that linux is significantly faster for certain operations. I have a copy of the results that I pointed to in an old post over here. Linux spanks OS X. It's a reason.

Other reasons include access to all of the source of your OS and better support for certain things (pcmcia 802.11b card support? Better filesystems. More software already working).

I personally run Debian on my laptop 99% of the time because my environment is the same everywhere, and apt-get kicks ass (fink on OS X is cool, but there isn't as much stuff available).

So, what's the url, dude? Don't just dangle the carrot ;).

Doh, good call.

It's password protected, so you can't browse around (I used http basic auth... I know, it sucks, but it's easy ;). I dumped some screenshots here .