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james toy wrote: |
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> Just as kevin said I really see no huge difference and it also has the |
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> god awful microsoft programs that actually are acceptable in the work world. |
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> Does anyone know any real advantages that would pursuade me to start |
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> using gentoo again? |
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> -jt |
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Well, I think its a matter of taste: |
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the good things about linux: |
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Linux is faster, from the core, to the window managers, with the exception of |
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video acceleration(driver support dependant). |
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The linux kernel is simply better, more performant, more stable, has much more |
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development than the mach darwin kernel(kernel of os x). |
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The filesystems ext3, reiserfs, xfs and ext2 are all faster than hfsplus, and 3 |
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of them are journaled :). |
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Mac OS X does not have a journaling file system, so data isn't so safe has it is |
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in linux under a journaled fs |
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Mac OS X obliges you to use their windowmanager, wich is heavy and kind of slow |
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(too slow for me) |
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The windowing system is less advanced, but faster, and lighter. |
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Also, linux is more configurable, I can put KDE or gnome, but I can also put |
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something lighter has fluxbox, in OSX we have their windowmanager and you can't |
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avoid that. |
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In Linux my memory fingerprint(normal RAM in use) is about 86 MiB, with |
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X, fluxbox, mozilla mail, mozilla web, xchat, eterms, gkrellm and xmms. |
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The CPU usage is very very small... |
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In OSX by contrast: ram use is allway above 128MiB, if I use safari + iTunes + |
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mozilla-mail + iTerm, its using nearly all the RAM (256MiB). |
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Just for playing music my G3 800mhz is at 33% usage, at mimimum... leading to |
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bigger power usage.. less battery..(supposedly). |
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Java apps are slower in osx than they are in Linux. |
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Conclusion, for me, linux shurelly kicks os X, its mutch lighter, i work better |
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in my linux with X and fluxbox than I can ever dream off in osx. |
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The bad things of linux: |
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Linux is harder to use, is less userfriendly, has less eye candy, and also worse |
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power management(my experience with iBook, because of not so improved video |
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drivers), I can also guess that driver support is better in osx, since they |
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choose the hardware and make the software to run on it.. |
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Its much easier to configure digital cameras, and all kinds of devices in osx |
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than in linux, and for me, this is something linux really has to improve. (I/O, |
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periferics support in linux is ugly.. and not straight forward). |
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Anyway, OS X 10.3 looks something quite nice, feature wise. |
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Also remember that OS X is a complete environment, from the kernel to the |
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windowing system and applications, Linux is just a kernel. |
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From the geek side, linux is and still will be faster/better than OSX for some |
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time to come (my bet is that is will be _very_ _very_ difficult to catch up with |
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linux performance, since it has a bigger developer base and is now backup by IT |
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giants suchs has sgi, ibm, etc..) Just wait until 2.6 comes out.. eheheh. |
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From the simple user side, osx is unix, has some very neat things, is directed |
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at regular people, and is not so bat after all :) |
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Well, my choice is Linux :) |
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Miguel Sousa Filipe |
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