[Sussex] LINUX takes on XServe

[Geoff Teale]

SLUGS,

Inkeeping with the subject du jour Byte have a little article comparing the
performance of LINUX against Mac OS X when being used as a server on Apple's
own XServer hardware.

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=7692/byt1035828368066/1028_bar.html

You'll note from the article than LINUX has been artificially slowed down by
running a KDE session whilst acting as a server - this was done because the
reviewer couldn't shut down the OS X GUI.  Even so LINUX still outperformed
Apple on Apple's own hardware.  

The reviewer points to a few things about virtual memory and the like.  One
point he didn't make (and Steve will back will agree vigourously with this)
is that OS X is a Micokernel architechture (Mach 3) and LINUX is a
Monolithic kernel architecture.  In General microkernels are slower than
Monolithic kernels (although this is not always the case).

Anyway - kudos LINUX ;)

-- 
GJT
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk




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