Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th May 2006 14:05 UTC, submitted by Mystilleef
Jasjeet Sekhon benchmarked Linux and MacOS X on the MacBook Pro using his statistical software, and finds that "Linux is found to be much faster than Apple's OS X for statistical computing. For example, in one benchmark Linux is more than twice as fast." Earlier, he ran tests on a G5 and an Opteron, and conlcuded: "Those results were terrible for OS X and not particularly good for the G5 (970) chip. For example, my 2.7 pound Pentium-M Linux laptop is faster than my 44 pound G5 running OS X. The floating point performance of the 970 chip leaves much to be desired, but OS X makes the performance problem significantly worse."
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2005-07-07
By the way I work as a sysadmin for a very large corp and Linux is used for the Grid compute nodes but no-one and I mean no-one in the organisation will even consider it (and it has been looked at) as a desktop alternative (no Adode etc)
Despite your experiences there are people who use Photoshop on Linux and not just joe users.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1210083,00.asp
It's also a popular platform for other film studios.
http://www.cinepaint.org/
Edited 2006-05-08 01:13