OS X Vs. Linux On The Desktop

saintlupus writes: "There's an interesting article about the recent web browsing stats of Linux by Charles Moore, a fairly well-known web journalist in the Mac community. He asks whether OS X is the deathblow to Linux in the desktop and scientific computing markets. He also touches on the perennial "I'll run it on my Athlon or not at all" mindset of current Lintel hardware owners. Definitely worth a read." The article that Charles uses as his jumping point is the recent stats on Linux on the desktop. That article cites .24%, but Charles article has some pieces on why that number could be wrong.

Comments

Re:Linux wins hands down

[ImaLamer]

Oh, and why the link to adequa__.org?

It has to be the biggest crap site on the net today. Not because I'm linux fanboy #1, but because its a forum for liars and idiots.

links to horrible stories:
[i won't link to... i hate them]
http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12 /1 6/145311/35
http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12 /1 8/202346/38
http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12 /2 1/195051/13

Or this poll:
Aware of Open Source License Implications?
* Yes, I work at Microsoft
* Yes, I used to work at VA Linux Software
* No, I work at slashdot

Re:A little misleading?

[adamy]

And as we all know, 42 is the answer

Re:In defense of the article itself...

[ImaLamer]

So right!

My solution? Debian's apt-get package system with Mandrake's ease of use.

Apt-get seems to be the only good install system out there. RPM doesn't hold a candle. I've not used one RPM utility that worked as good as the apt-get tool.

But debian isn't got it all! If mandrake built their distro off of debian, we wouldn't need this discussion. But they would also need to do a lot more work... so...

Re:Childish namecalling

[Alan Partridge]

...which is my point, of course. Not only that, it doesn't make anyone anything because it means nothing in itself or even at all. A better guide to someone's intelligence would probably be the MPG of their car (assuming they had one) - or maybe Charles Dickens' measure of worth. Simply count his friends.

Re:OS X vs. Linux

[SkepTech]

So you're telling me that all I need to do to double my paycheck is switch to a Mac?

Hahahahahah! Hahahahah! You're rich!

Actually, the successful company deploys the best value hardware to their important professionals. That almost always means Intel-based machines. Not that it matters, that class of professional runs 'Office' not an OS. And MS Office runs on Mac and it runs on Windows.

What? Linux? Don't fool yourself. You're the one who is talking about the People whose time is worthy money.

So, basically, you're fighting a Mac versus Windows fight here. This is all off topic.

I disagree

[HanzoSan]

You need ram depending on what you do. For most laptop uses having more than 256 megs of ram is useless. Of course i use linux and not bloated windowsXP.

As far as procesor benchmarks, I checked them myself, the 1ghz processor totally smokes the G4 at specific things, I mean like x4 the speed of the G4 at certain things. Some things the G4 is closer to the same level, but these things are very rare things, like using a certain feature in photoshop.

As far as ram, Dell supports over 1gig of ram too.
As far as battery life, you win, Tibook beats dell.

Having more ram wont give speed gains, having a faster harddrive will. Get SCSI raid on a laptop and 1ghz chip will distance itself even more.

For now it still wins on encoding, decoding dvix and movies. It wins on gaming. It has a better screen, UXGA and if the guy above got the Latitude model which sucks its only because he didnt got the "network enhanced" model instead of the "desktop replacement" model. He had the choice.

The Dell is better than the Tibook in most areas, even in some, and the Tibook wins in only a couple of areas.

Looks like dell wins