Linux Trumps OS X and Still Trumps

Linux, says Jasjeet Sekhon, associate professor, Travers Department of Political Science Survey Research Center at UC Berkeley.

What does the Apple crowd have to say about that?

“I joke that my webserver survived the digg onslaught and my mailserver the Apple fraternity onslaught,” Sekhon told p2pnet. “Joking aside, the response from the fraternity has been mostly but not entirely civil. A running issue has been that they don’t think it is fair to compare OS X with Linux because the latter is a specialty operating system. I find this claim to be bizarre.

Linux Trumps OS X 

“A running issue has been that they don’t think it is fair to compare OS X with Linux because the latter is a specialty operating system,” the author, Jasjeet Sekhon, associate professor, Travers Department of Political Science Survey Research Center at UC Berkeley, told p2pnet at the time.
Sekhon followed up his first study and, “Notwithstanding extensive algorithmic improvements (many of which were suggested by a generous and talented programmer working at Apple), a Linux performance advantage remains, although it’s substantially smaller,” he says.

Linux (still) trumps OS X