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That gcc and a lot of the open source technology used by both OSs, is a win for the Open Source movement, and also may explain why performance is similar. A lo

That gcc and a lot of the open source technology used by both OSs, is a win for the Open Source movement, and also may explain why performance is similar. A lot of the linux and GNU software is hardly just developed by "teams of hackers" at this point. As someone who got sent to a RedHat class for a week ( migrating from hpux -> linux), I can attest Linux has large corporate support at this point. My former employer wouldn't have touched it if it wasn't supported.

ConstantineXVI 14y ago
[pedantic] gcc isn't used much in OSX anymore; the 'gcc' that ships in OSX is a pre-GPL3 version (as are any remaining GNU tools) that's on top of LLVM, and I believe the OS itself and most apps are compiled with clang now. (though LLVM and clang were both born from similar communities)
hcarvalhoalves 14y ago
"That gcc and a lot of the open source technology used by both OSs, is a win for the Open Source movement, and also may explain why performance is similar." I'm afraid Dr. Stallman killed that with GPLv3. Each new OS X release comes with less and less GNU software.