After delivering benchmarks last week that were comparing the Intel Sandy Bridge performance of Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” vs. Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” when it came to the Sandy Bridge OpenGL graphics performance, here’s a comparative look at the performance of Ubuntu 11.10 against Mac OS X 10.7.2 from the Intel Sandy Bridge-based Mac.

Recently I have been using the newest Macbook Pro 15″, and I thought I would update my direct experience on how Ubuntu and OS X stack up.

We’ve already shown you how to customize your Ubuntu installation and make it look like Windows 7, and now we’re back to show you how to turn Linux into a Mac OS X lookalike in just a couple of minutes.

With a new Mac Book Pro in our labs with the latest Apple/Intel hardware, along with the most recent versions of each operating system, we have carried out a new set of tests that is also more in-depth than our earlier published benchmarks.

Next week there are some very interesting Apple-related benchmarks to be published, but before the weekend here are a few tests from this Apple Mac Book Pro looking at its power consumption under Mac OS X 10.6.5 and Ubuntu 10.10.

On Wednesday, October 20, Apple held its “Back to the Mac” keynote in which Steve Jobs and crew introduced their new iLife suite and their upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. During the keynote (yes, I followed along out of curiosity) they highlighted many “brand new innovations” for OS X Lion. I couldn’t help [...]

Macbuntu is a script that has been designed to enable Ubuntu users to easily convert the outlook of their installation to look like Mac OS X. The script is designed in such a way that you can install it with just four commands on terminal.

You can use a script called Macbuntu which is very easy to use and can make your Ubuntu desktop look like Mac OSX in seconds. Macbuntu is available as a stable version (2.2) for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx but there’s also an alpha version (2.3) for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

For this article, we’ll show you how to build a single Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X, Windows 7 (64-bit), and Ubuntu 10.04. You’ll also need a Windows 7 DVD, a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD, and a blank CD or DVD for the Ubuntu install. Soon, you’ll be able to run Apple’s [...]

Could Ubuntu Linux rule the future over Mac OS X or even Windows? Ok. I must admit I just created a computer box with Ubuntu 9. I have been so impressed with this operating system, I started to wonder what was the future of Mac OS X or Windows.

The experience has changed me. I still have an old ThinkPad 600 (introduced in 1998) running Ubuntu 10.04, and, despite its age and low speed, I find myself using it more than my iBook.

Nevertheless, with a modified Mac4Lin theme and the maturity of the Global Menu, I am now able to make this tutorial a much simpler, quicker and easier one than all its previous iteration. If you are looking to transform your Ubuntu Lucid to Mac OS X, this is also the most complete one around

Over the past couple of weeks since Ubuntu 10.04 was released and I, along with all the other users, have been discovering how much like Mac OSX it is becoming.

Blogger Matt Asay asserting that changes in the consumer-oriented Ubuntu 10.04 LTS edition will cause “Apple fanbois” to reconsider their love for Steve Jobs

Fired up after the Open Source Developer’s conference in Brisbane, I decided to try dual booting my recent iMac with Ubuntu 9.10 and MacOS X.

As we await the release of FreeBSD 8.0 to deliver a larger operating system comparison, we have carried out a fresh round of tests comparing Mac OS X 10.6.2 and Ubuntu 9.10 (both x86 and x86_64 editions) under a variety of tests.

Can’t decide which operating system you want to run on your MacBook? The newest Macs allow you to boot up from Windows or Mac OS X using the included Boot Camp disk-partitioning software.

And I don’t just mean for geeks. I mean a real, viable alternative to Windows for many users despite the apparent quality of both Windows 7 and Server 2008.

Which is the best operating system — Windows 7, OS X 10.6 or Ubuntu 9.10? The question is almost pointless.

October is a big month for computer nerds. Windows 7 (October 22nd) and Ubuntu 9.10 (October 29th) will both be released. Two major updates to two of the biggest operating systems around. But which should you use? Which is the best for your particular needs?

Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” will be out in October and does have some performance improvements as our earlier tests have shown, but Canonical engineers have not been exclusively focusing on performance optimizations with this release. Can the Karmic Koala outperform Snow Leopard?

Here’s a switcher story of a different color: from the Mac, to Linux. It’s one thing to talk about operating systems and free software in theory, or to hear from died-in-the-wool advocates of their platform of choice

Four years ago, Ubuntu Linux replaced XP as my main desktop OS at the office and at home. Most things work fine, with some major annoyances left. Now that we want to upgrade our computers at home, these annoyances feel big enough that I now consider switching to a Mac.

In this beginner article, Ben Mackie provides step-by-step instructions for installing Ubuntu Linux through VirtualBox on an Intel Mac running either Tiger or Leopard. Hopefully this article will encourage even the most cautious Mac users to enjoy the benefits of a Mac with Linux.

Bypassing Windows altogether, Mark Shuttleworth has stated that OS X is the operating system to beat. With Ubuntu’s 9.04 now in wide distribution, we look at how it stacks up with the competition.

We have already looked at the performance of Ubuntu’s Jaunty Jackalope, and even found it to perform with old hardware, but how does it now compete with Mac OS X? We have more benchmarks this morning to continue this performance investigation.

Lin-X aims to follow the Ubuntu distribution on which it’s based but look as much like Apple’s OS X as possible.

I’m thinking about getting a US keyboard as this will be closer to the OSX keyboard thus making it less annoying for me to having to think where double-quotes and tilde are, as for now at least I’m probably going to continue using OSX at work until I can get to a good point to [...]

I’ve been using Linux as my primary development environment for a number of months now, despite being an abject Mac fanboy. Why?

For quite some time I use my Ubuntu machine as a file and backup server for all Macs in my network which is perfectly accessible from the Finder in Mac OS X.