Posted on Tuesday, May 04 2010 @ 5:02 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
While Linux has long been talked about as being a faster
operating system than Microsoft Windows, in 2010 is this still the case?
It seems every time we deliver new benchmarks of the EXT4 file-system
it's actually getting slower, recent Linux kernel releases have not been
delivering any major performance enhancements for desktop users, the
open-source Linux graphics drivers are still no match to the proprietary
drivers, and "bloated and huge" is how Linus Torvalds described the
Linux kernel last year. This is all while Windows 7 was released last
year, which many view as Microsoft's best operating system release to
date. Even after using it a fair amount the past few months in
preparation for this about-to-be-shared work, it is actually not too bad
and is a huge improvement over Windows Vista, but is it really faster
than Ubuntu Linux? We have used six uniquely different systems and ran
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x86_64 on each
of them with a set of 55 tests (actually, more than 165 if considering
that each test is usually run at least three times for accuracy) per
installation.
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