out perform in what way? that's a pretty vague request. you can certainly use a *nix variant to set it up as a router or firewall and/or network storage. if you want to stuff 3 ethernet cards in it i suppose it could also be set up as a 4 port switch with lots of buffering and managed routing if you wanted to. what exactly are you wanting it to do? for the firewall thing a iici running openbsd and "pf" should work nicely on a cable modem for instance. i don't think openbsd supports the x100 series, but it may and i know some other variants do (the 6100/7100/8100 have a unique architecture compared to other macs, and the development work just hasn't been done)
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