Posted on Thursday, October 29 2009 @ 5:05 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Last week we looked at the Ubuntu 9.10 netbook performance
with two Atom-powered netbooks comparing the Karmic Koala numbers
against that of Ubuntu 9.04. For the most part, Ubuntu 9.10 offered
better performance over its predecessor, but there were a few
performance drops in different areas. With our netbook results out of
the way, next up we looked at how Ubuntu 9.10 is running with older PC
hardware. For the testing in this article we pulled out an aging laptop
and ran a set of tests across Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu
9.04, and the latest Ubuntu 9.10 snapshot.
Read more
at Phoronix.
