Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Comparing Apples and Penguins. Comparing Apples and Penguins. Moshe Bar at Byte.com has performed a careful and thorough side-by-side benchmark/comparison of OS X as a pure server (not desktop) environment by installing both OS X and the SuSE PowerPC Linux distribution on an XServe. Short story: OS X lost to Linux on every measurable count, but Moshe is still impressed, since OS X is so new while Linux has had a decade to tune its subsystems. To my knowledge, this is the first such test done with this degree of care. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] [Mac Net Journal] 7:50:58 PM

Dell selling Apple's iPods. update Putting differences aside, Dell begins selling its archrival's iPod digital music player by phone, with online sales to follow. [CNET News.com] 7:42:38 PM

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