Three reasons why GNU/Linux is better for Web servers than OS X
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 156.108.0.70]
on June 30, 2008 09:45 PM
Your first item is really a double-edged sword. Yes, Linux is a bit more flexible in terms of speed of fixes and the like. The benefits of being open source. But with Apple, while you wait longer, you do have a dedicated team interested in making sure that everything works the way it's supposed to - the benefit of a commercial project.
Granted that PEAR is not installed by default, but a search on Google for "Pear for Mac" turned up a page with a half-dozen command line commands to install it without a bit of trouble. Your other examples are apparently better supported than you think, though to be honest you do need to install four libraries by hand for GD to work correctly, but it really is trivial, and the full instructions are available, with cut and paste code, on the Apple Open Source Developer website.
Could it be easier to do these things on a Mac? Sure. But most of your issues are one-time fixes at the beginning and rarely if ever need to be tinkered with again.
The nice thing is that, if you decide that OS X isn't cutting it for you, there's a distribution of Linux that'll run on the same hardware and you can try the other side of the street for free.
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Three reasons why GNU/Linux is better for Web servers than OS X
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 156.108.0.70] on June 30, 2008 09:45 PMGranted that PEAR is not installed by default, but a search on Google for "Pear for Mac" turned up a page with a half-dozen command line commands to install it without a bit of trouble. Your other examples are apparently better supported than you think, though to be honest you do need to install four libraries by hand for GD to work correctly, but it really is trivial, and the full instructions are available, with cut and paste code, on the Apple Open Source Developer website.
Could it be easier to do these things on a Mac? Sure. But most of your issues are one-time fixes at the beginning and rarely if ever need to be tinkered with again.
The nice thing is that, if you decide that OS X isn't cutting it for you, there's a distribution of Linux that'll run on the same hardware and you can try the other side of the street for free.
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