Posted on Sunday, November 09 2008 @ 21:10 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Last week we published Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 benchmarks from a
Lenovo ThinkPad T60 and had found Ubuntu's performance degraded
peculiarly over the past year and a half. We then published Fedora 7 to
10 benchmarks covering the same time-frame and from the same exact Intel
notebook computer, but the newer releases of Fedora were only marginally
slower in a few tests. In our performance exploration of Ubuntu we now
have additional tests to publish this morning. This time around we're
switching out the hardware we're testing on to Intel's newer Core 2
series and we're comparing the performance of the x86 and x86_64
editions of Ubuntu 8.10 against Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 operating system.
Read more
at Phoronix.