[LAU] Linux VS Mac
Raffaele Morelli
raffaele.morelli at gmail.com
Sat May 11 07:45:55 UTC 2013
2013/5/10 Kevin Utter <kvutter at frii.com>
> Hi all! If this subject isn't wanted here, please forgive me and feel
> free to send me where it would be most appropriate. Or if this has already
> been discussed, please just let me know and I'll go through and look it up.
> I don't want to be a bother, but I appreciate any info you people could
> pass along.
>
> I know the Mac isn't Linux based, but I understand it is somewhat Unix
> based. From what I've seen, some of the packages I could make and install
> (Perhaps that really means compile?) could be done in Mac. Can anyone give
> me some general info about when that might work and when it clearly won't?
> I only thought it might be nice to avoid switching back and forth from
> different operating systems, but I can and will if it just really isn't
> practical. I've just been seeing references in various packages to
> installing/compiling on both systems, and thought I could get a bit more
> basic info. As you can tell, my technical skills are still quite basic,
> but I've done enough of this before to have some success but get into a bit
> of trouble too. Any info is appreciated.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Kevin
>
In terms of performance Mac vs linux it's not really a matter of OS but
more of hw/cpu involved... plus ~800€ for that bitten apple ;-)
Got yourself a PC, at the same cost of an iMac probably you can buy a
server with 8GbRAM, 4 core cpu and SATA raid...
/r
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