Comparing Apples to Penguins: Byte compares OS X Server to Linux on an Xserve.

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See here.

 

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Not that I know anything about this sort of thing, but some problems with the OS X side of the review.

1) He used an older version of OS X Server. OS X.2.1 Server is now out, which apparently includes updated and additional admin tools. Faster compiler too?

2) He couldn't turn off the GUI. I was told that you can. How important is the GUI anyway? I can see it making things a lot easier if you don't know what you're doing, but would you really want to have a sysadmin who didn't know what s/he was doing? I suppose it'd be a good time saver overall though.

In all fairness he did add a GUI to the Linux server too, although it's not a direct comparison. Plus it seems he used the 2.95 compiler for both Linux and OS X.

 

[lowtech1]

It look more like a desktop/workstation comparrison to me, because all linux servers that I have worked on uses command line only.

And I don't know how much of a diff the versions of GCC make, but GCC 3.2 came out for Linux/Mac 3 months prior to the release of Jaguar.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: lowtech
It look more like a desktop/workstation comparrison to me, because all linux server that I have work on uses command line only.

And I don't know how much of a diff the versions of GCC make, but GCC 3.2 came out for Linux/Mac 3 months prior to the release of Jaguar.

Supposedly, gcc 3.x had some important improvements for the objective c ror c++ that 2.96didnt have.

Im not going to read the article. I see room for both, but in different places.

 

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Originally posted by: lowtech
It look more like a desktop/workstation comparrison to me, because all linux servers that I have worked on uses command line only.

Well, not quite a desktop/workstation comparison here, since the hardware used (for both the Linux and OS X setups) was a rackmount 1U Xserve. It just so happens that much of the setup can be done now via the GUI, with OS X Server, if you want the option.

But like said, I don't know much about this stuff at all.