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PPC Linux vs. Mac OS X Server: Linux Edges Out
Spencerian writes "Mac OS X is a very promising new BSD variant, but how does it rate as a server? Byte.com writer Moshe Bar has made an extensively balanced performance comparison of Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 versus SuSE Linux PPC with the 2.4.19 kernel. Both operating systems ran on the same hardware: an Xserve 1U rack mount server from Apple. While /.ers may guess (correctly) at his results, Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 wasn't as far behind the curve as you might think. Performance might've been better if Moshe had Mac OS X Server 10.2, with its faster GUI and other enhancements, but still, it appears that Mac OS X Server 10.1 was doing pretty good for a 1-year old."
For one, you'd best not be dissing Moshe, he is 1000x the hacker you will ever be. And for another, who cares if some other crackpot news site reports something first? I see at least 10 stories a week that show up on K5 before slashdot. Doesn't mean they shouldn't get posted here as well.
These results have absolutely jack all to do with the "quality" of OS X - they were comparing servers not desktops, so stuff like the GUI is not at all relevant.
A lot of those components that have had "amazing progress" are also irrelevant: if we ignore the fact that every OS supports OpenGL, can create 2D images, and KDE had PDF creation built in before OS X was even released we're still left with the last section, and easy to implement Cocoa and Carbon APIs. which is BS, only Apple can implement them as they are OS X only APIs. Sure, maybe you could build something like Wine, but that's hardly easy to implement is it? Easy to implement would mean international standards and open source reference implementations, Cocoa is sort of there, but most OS X apps of note use Carbon.
Why the hell can people get free karma by drooling over MacOS? Stop with the crack pipes mods!