Question

I should write a study, comparing two operating systems. My choice was OS X and Ubuntu, especially because the last Ubuntu, 11.11 (Oneiric Ocelot) seems to be as OS X Lion.
This two themes are too large – I would like to be more specific in my study – such as kernel or thread differences. Can you suggest me some ideas, which are large enough to write a study about them, but specifically good enough in the same time?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Some ideas to investigate:

• license and freedom of software (and of user data).

• the /proc filesystem

• kernel limitations (number of threads, of processes, of inodes, max file sizes)

• availability of cross platform framework libraries (like Qt)

• hardware drivers & heterogeneity

• thread implementations

• dynamic libraries, plugins

• graphical interfaces

• availability of language implementations

etc etc