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The Performance of Ubuntu Linux Over the Past 10 Years (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the so-it's-not-just-new-chips dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Tests were carried out at Phoronix of all Ubuntu Long-Term Support releases from the 6.06 "Dapper Drake" release to 16.04 "Xenial Xerus," looking at the long-term performance of (Ubuntu) Linux using a dual-socket AMD Opteron server. Their benchmarks of Ubuntu's LTS releases over 10 years found that the Radeon graphics performance improved substantially, the disk performance was similar while taking into account the switch from EXT3 to EXT4, and that the CPU performance had overall improved for many workloads thanks to the continued evolution of the GCC compiler.

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  1. In all honesty... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Writing sane optimized software makes far bigger impact than dicking with filesystems, schedulers and compiler optimizations to hunt the 0.05% extra performance. For example the Unity desktop is super laggy on low-end hardware, all due to bloated design.

  2. Don't tell anyone by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Linux fans find out that a distro is in any way successful, they're obligated to split it into a million competing forks and bitch about it endlessly.

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    SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.