linux vs OSX performance comparissons?

[CJNE]

I started out buying a cube because i thought os x looked so cool. It was kinda cool at first but i soon got annoyed by small things like:
* it's horribly slow
* netinfo/hosts isn't working with bsd apps
* almost no usable native apps
* no virtual desktops (space.app lacks too much in that area to be usable)
* Xdarwin is incredibly slow and does not support international keyboards

and so on

So without a usable X server on it i couldn't even run Xemacs, one of the things that i must have (virtual desktops is the other must).

So i ended up installing LinuxPPC on another partition.
It was FAST!! in comparsion with os x.
XFree86 v 4 is also FAST.
And everything just worked (compiling all good opensource stuff out there etc), this was like heaven.

Add to that MacOnLinux which works pretty much like classic and Ximian GNOME 1.4 (GNOME by the way does not suck, especially this dist is very nice) and you have something that's in my opinion is far better than os x in it's current state.

The conclusion is that if you, like me, wanted os x mainly because of the unix subsytem combined with nice gui, go for linux instead until os x gets it right.
Once os x is usable i'll prbably switch back, i still think that the idea is good

When it comes to performance as a webserver, it's just a waste of money considering you can get a much cheaper intel-linux machine that probably works much better to.

Well, i guess i'm done now

[strobe]

The reason why LinuxPPC's XFree86 is faster is because it's accelerated. XDarwin isn't, and can't be because DRI is incompatible with the video card driver architecture OS X uses. X11 sucks anyway.

Virtual screens suck ass. You should have bought a dual G4 and several cheap video cards instead.

If you want something expecting ancient /etc/ files like passwd then use nidump and niload, yeesh.

GNOME does indeed suck. Only the lowered expectations of the Linux experience could elevate it to non-sucktitude

[ginoledesma]

Oh yes, one note I forgot to include, I prefer xfce over the bloated GNOME/KDE.

One good way to test speed would be Apache, I guess, but I can't install that right now since I have to do stuff on Mac OS 9.