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PPC Linux vs. Mac OS X Server: Linux Edges Out

Posted by michael on from the blame-it-on-the-gui dept.

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."

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  1. Grammar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Mac OS X Server 10.1 was doing pretty good for a 1-year old


    And "was doing pretty good" is written pretty well for a ten-year-old.
  2. 403 Forbidden by Ed+Avis · · Score: 5, Funny

    'You have requested data that the server has decided not to provide to you. Your request was understood and denied.'

    Wow, a self-aware server that _understands_ the Slashdot effect. I wonder if it is part of their mythology.

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    1. Re:403 Forbidden by inputsprocket · · Score: 2, Funny

      What, you mean like Marvin? :D

  3. What a mean webserver! by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 2, Funny
    Here is the error I received when I tried to visit the link at byte.com:
    "You have requested data that the server has decided not to provide to you. Your request was understood and denied."
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  4. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    because the server adds some very nice remote configuration and management tools. and dammit, i like pretty.

  5. Re:Wouldn't it make more sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    because its like comparing a red apple with a green apple so when compared with linux, linux is more like a watermelon; Big, Sweet, and is red and green already.

    oh okay so I'm hungry, oh well

    -5q33z

  6. shameless karma whoring by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 5, Funny


    Maybe it means the opposite of "was doing pretty evil". Presumably describing a Windows/IIS server configuration.

  7. Re:Purposefully denied? by Baconator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, that's not it. I got that same message but I use a web proxy that forges referring URLs. It does break some web pages in funny ways, but I find the idea of littering server logs with references to fuckedcompany.com quite amusing. How's -that- for geek humor?

  8. Re:Still wondering... by zulux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet, they use VNC to more easily administer the server - or something like webmin or linuxconf in HTTP mode. Either way, you're still running a GUI.

    Reminds me - I have a FreeBSD box that I'm too stupid/time-burdened to get X running on it's crappy video card. But it serves up a GUI over VNC just fine.

    I have another FreeBSD box that doesen't *have* a video card, and, of course, it servers KDE over VNC just fine. When I show it to MCSE types - theh sit there and stare. "b..b..but... I doesen't have a video card! How does it do that?"

    Fun to play with their little minds.

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  9. Re:Advantages??? by PsychoSpunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can buy a larger license if you need it, though.

    There's a larger license than unlimited?

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  10. Re:Still wondering... by kwerle · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have another FreeBSD box that doesen't *have* a video card, and, of course, it servers KDE over VNC just fine. When I show it to MCSE types - theh sit there and stare. "b..b..but... I doesen't have a video card! How does it do that?"

    As if windows can't do that? With VNC, no less? Maybe you'd need a card to set it up - I don't know, but I'd bet that the machine you use did when you installed it, too (though I won't bet $ on that :-)

    Actually, I have launched VNC blind on a windows box. Wait, now I'm just sounding like a sick bastard...