MacOs vs Linux performance?

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MeeLee
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MacOs vs Linux performance?

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Has anyone ever been able to test the MacOs operating system vs the Linux operating system?
Especially with the A1 (not sure if those newer laptops can run Linux yet).
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Re: MacOs vs Linux performance?

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I have a Hackintosh I assembled a few years ago using an i7-7700K processor and a GTX 1060 GPU. Life interfered just as I finished assmebly, so didn't have time to configure it for loading OS X, so I loaded Ubuntu at first. A while later I did get OS X loaded. For CPU processing I saw no consistent difference in folding speed over WUs from the same projects.

As for the Apple M1, any folding going on at this point would be on macOS Big Sur using its code translation software Rosetta 2. So far there is no native code version of the F@h client or core released. So even if someone did get Linux loaded, they might not be able to test folding yet as the ARM core might not be assigned to this hardware.
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Re: MacOs vs Linux performance?

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Joe_H wrote:
As for the Apple M1, any folding going on at this point would be on macOS Big Sur using its code translation software Rosetta 2. So far there is no native code version of the F@h client or core released. So even if someone did get Linux loaded, they might not be able to test folding yet as the ARM core might not be assigned to this hardware.
I would presume if FAH works on Debian (for Raspberry Pi), it should work on M1.
What I think wouldn't work, is Linux not having the kernels ready for this CPU.
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Re: MacOs vs Linux performance?

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Something might come soon ;)
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