I think OS X has been the best all-round Desktop OS for many years now, but what does it give you as a server that a linux-based system can't, and that's worth the trouble of custom racks, vendor lock-in and high costs?
In fact, if you're working with OpenGL, OS X can be frustrating since it only ever supports an OpenGL version a few years behind the latest release - IMO one of the platform's biggest drawbacks.
Then again, I've seen some pretty strange errors on server machines doing GPU-heavy work on linux machines with Nvidia cards, and it's probably easier to get support on a standardised SW/HW system such as the Mac Pro...
I think OS X has been the best all-round Desktop OS for many years now, but what does it give you as a server that a linux-based system can't, and that's worth the trouble of custom racks, vendor lock-in and high costs?
In fact, if you're working with OpenGL, OS X can be frustrating since it only ever supports an OpenGL version a few years behind the latest release - IMO one of the platform's biggest drawbacks.
Then again, I've seen some pretty strange errors on server machines doing GPU-heavy work on linux machines with Nvidia cards, and it's probably easier to get support on a standardised SW/HW system such as the Mac Pro...