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Mac pro and Ubuntu
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Minnesota
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Anyone using Ubuntu (pure, not VM) on a mac pro? Looking for information on performance. Tnks
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Performance at what?
Is there any reason to believe the performance you're concerned about is going to be different on a Mac Pro with Ubuntu than a dual Xeon running any other distro?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Are you looking for anecdotal type feedback (e.g. performance is excellent), or actual benchmarks? If you are looking for as much performance as possible, would running a lighter weight window manager be an option? There should be lots of benchmarks for dual Xeons out there, like mduell said. As far as more anecdotal type feedback, Linux in general feels more responsive than OS X/Aqua for me. This is probably why Apple is working on Snow Leopard.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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Anecdotally, I think the performance is excellent on my Mac Pro. I don't use it that often, but it feels faster than RHEL 5 on my work machine (a Dell Optiplex).
I don't have any real benchmarks though. I use OS X 80% of the time.
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Mac Pro 2x 2.66 GHz Dual core, Apple TV 160GB, two Windows XP PCs
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Minnesota
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I have used fedora and suse on pc architecture. Even used yellowdog on a g4 laptop. But haven't messed with intel macs yet. Most folks I talk to about linux state ubuntu is one of the best to use. Not ever using ubuntu, thought I would start asking mac foilks who have tried it or still using it. Been reading the ubuntu forums but don't see to many posts about mac pro's, mostly imacs, powerbooks and mini's so makes me wonder if there is a better distro than ubunto to run on a mac pro. As far as performance, am looking for just a solid running OS with the smallest problems. Leopard works good but think it was released to soon. Not fond of the security options in leopard. At least in tiger I had better control. I usually wait unti the 5th update comes out before upgrading the OS but jumped on leopard right away from listening to the hype. My pro ran flawlessly on tiger, but leopard is still to buggy. No OS is perfect but paying for buggy OS's is getting old. Seems the bigger apple gets, the sloppier they get.
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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