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Old 27th June 2008
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Darwin is a clean Unix, and it performs very well. Apple develops Darwin with a different purpose in mind. Mac OS X is not the fastest operating system in the world, according to microbenchmarks, but that's because the developers don't want to "waste" time implementing features that may not translate into a real-world performance increase. If you want to switch to FreeBSD because Mac OS X's interface gets in the way, then that's a good reason, but if you want to switch because FreeBSD is Unix, then that's the wrong reason because you have all of that functionality available to you on OS X.

I don't know if I'd stick with PPC, though. If you're a web developer, then lack of flash might be interfere with that, if you ever need to use it.
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