I responded a bit to the compiler questions on OSNews. While I'm not sure it's still true for the G5, GCC wasn't the best compiler to use on the G4, CodeWarrior was, and if you want to compare the most widely-used compilers for a somewhat more real-world comparison you'd probably be comparing GCC on the Mac versus Visual C on the PC. But, Apple's always been "selective" about benchmarks; there were several times over the past few years I wanted to beat Steve Jobs with a copy of Photoshop. "We get it, Steve. Fast vector, Steve. Slow everything else, Steve."
I've used FreeBSD off and on with the PC sporadically for a few years and really like it. (The BSDish-ness of OS X is what tilted me toward buying a PowerBook to replace my Mac OS 9 iBook a couple years ago; OS 9 reminded of me of everything I'd liked about Mac OS 7 in 1991--and also showed how little the original Mac OS had come since 1991.) At NetPoodles we were developing on FreeBSD, which probably made me one of a very few people using a free Unix at work and Windows 2000 at home. I'm still considering upgrading my increasingly-outdated PC, with its Celeron 433 and the Matrox Mystique I'll charitably call "venerable"; while I'm not too much of a gamer, it'd be nice to be able to at least theoretically run my company's product.
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Date: 2003-06-24 08:59 (UTC)I've used FreeBSD off and on with the PC sporadically for a few years and really like it. (The BSDish-ness of OS X is what tilted me toward buying a PowerBook to replace my Mac OS 9 iBook a couple years ago; OS 9 reminded of me of everything I'd liked about Mac OS 7 in 1991--and also showed how little the original Mac OS had come since 1991.) At NetPoodles we were developing on FreeBSD, which probably made me one of a very few people using a free Unix at work and Windows 2000 at home. I'm still considering upgrading my increasingly-outdated PC, with its Celeron 433 and the Matrox Mystique I'll charitably call "venerable"; while I'm not too much of a gamer, it'd be nice to be able to at least theoretically run my company's product.