On Saturday 04 June 2005 01:11, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
A while ago I was complaining on list that I couldn't find a decent comparasion between Apple hardware running Linux and an x86 machine.
Another thing I was interested in was the comparative performance of running services such as apache or mysql.
Anybody else interested should read this http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436 (use the "Print this article" at the bottom to get it on one long page)
Yeah I read through this yesterday. can't remember who pointed it out to me.
Fair play the author was up-front about it being a *dreadfully* unscientific test, but there was one thing that still ruined it.
In testing Mac OS X against linux, at no point did the author think to run linux on the Mac hardware.
They instead ran benchmarks between two Xeon systems andone Opteron system running linux, against one G5 running OS X, but NO LINUX ON THE G5. Aaargh.
What a shame that during the probably quite lengthy process of writing and researching that article, the person didn't consider that when comparing performance of 2 OSes, running them on the same hardware platform might be an idea.
Could have replaced an awful lot of colourful graphs with that bit of rudimentary 'finkin.
Not that it would have been very scientific anyway, but YKWIM :)
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