Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Nov 2005 20:51 UTC, submitted by Anon_Poster
A batch of BSD news today. Firstly, here are a few impressions on DesktopBSD 1.0 RC3. "DesktopBSD is a breeze to install. Desktop uses a crisp and clean KDE desktop with an attractive theme with a standard selection of applications." Secondly, DragonFly BSD asks its users to test some drivers for wireless networking. And lastly, also concerning DragonFly BSD: "Recently spent some time getting the Mach lite kernel up and running for research on the idea can the system be made to run in production."
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I am. btw, a Mac user and have no issues.
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In some ways it did, but the lmbench numbers are particularly damning. Lmbench is a very simple benchmark, but since UNIX is a very simple system, it gets to the heart of a lot of UNIX performance issues. It'll tell you what the basic primitives of your program cost, and on OS X, these primatives are very expensive.
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2005-07-06
True, the benchmarks used were also brought up, for example, the MySQL issue was more a situation of HFS+ being over caucious when it came ot reading/writing data - a number of Apple and MacOS programmers pulled it to bits.
Now sure, there are some improvements that need to be made, but I think the article painted MacOS X to be worse than it really was.