Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu Benchmarks
February 24th, 2007 by jamesPhoronix had the interesting idea to benchmark Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu. Considering that they’re the same distribution with a different desktop environment, it more or less boils down to a benchmark of which desktop environment makes the benchmark slower.
If you check the benchmark out, you’ll see that in each case the numbers were very close to each other. There was a minor difference with Ubuntu (GNOME desktop) being a little bit faster than the other two, and Kubuntu (KDE) being slowest on the “desktop” system (Sempron) benchmark. On the server system (XEON processor) neither distribution was always fastest. From what I read I don’t think the benchmarks were done repeatedly and averaged out. It was an interesting idea to try, though.
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December 11th, 2007 at 4:07 am
This benchmark does not show anything except the differences between the hardware. Of course all the benchmarks are going to be virtually the same on the same hardware across OS’s, it because the underlying systems (e.g. binaries) are the same, exactly the same.