“This myth certainly isn’t new at all, but there’s been such a
flurry of rampant speculation about kernel changes in Leopard that
Apple’s Dr. Ernest Prabhakar, the product manager for Mac OS X,
recently took the unusual step of pointing out the difference
between speculation and fact.“This myth is of the wishful thinking type; the promise of extra
speed sounds like a good thing, and who doesn’t like Linux?
Everyone talks about it, and the big guns are behind it…”