abarbarian Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arch_2012_linuxdistros&num=1 At the request of many Phoronix readers following the release of updated Arch Linux media, here are some new Arch Linux benchmarks. However, this is not just Arch vs. Ubuntu, but rather a larger Linux distribution performance comparison. In this article are benchmark results from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.2, Fedora 17, Slackware 14.0 Beta, and Arch Linux. This shoot out is almost a year old but I thought it would be of interest. I hesitated posting as Arch is not a clear cut winner by any means. Though it does in the main kick Ubuntus butt, well it is more of a playful kick in the pants really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Too techy for me. I got a headache just looking at all those weird acronyms and stats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 I don't bother reading the techy stuff. I just look to see if the appropriate bars on the graphs are longer or shorter than the others 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burninbush Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I don't bother reading the techy stuff. I just look to see if the appropriate bars on the graphs are longer or shorter than the others Sad that my favorite Slackware is the slowest of the lot. Maybe someone here can explain why there should be any differences at all between these distros -- aren't they all pretty much compiled from the same code? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 It's difficult to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges in that test unless they use the exact same hardware and software (other than the operating systems) to test. That didn't seem to be the case with that test. In some instances, they were using different graphics hardware and different windows managers. Of course, you'll see performance differences. Slackware doesn't need to be "fast". That ol' tortoise did OK after all, didn't he. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 It's difficult to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges in that test unless they use the exact same hardware and software (other than the operating systems) to test. That didn't seem to be the case with that test. In some instances, they were using different graphics hardware and different windows managers. Of course, you'll see performance differences. Great point!! I am surprised they did not test them with the same specs and setup. Otherwise, the whole review is meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 It's difficult to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges in that test unless they use the exact same hardware and software (other than the operating systems) to test. That didn't seem to be the case with that test. In some instances, they were using different graphics hardware and different windows managers. Of course, you'll see performance differences. Slackware doesn't need to be "fast". That ol' tortoise did OK after all, didn't he. https://en.wikipedia...se_and_the_Hare These five popular Linux distributions were benchmarked from an Intel Core i7 3960X "Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition" system with 8GB of RAM, a 64GB OCZ SSD, and Radeon HD 4650 graphics card. Arch, Slackware, Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu were all benchmarked in their stock/default configuration as much as possible. Obviously with Arch Linux being a rolling-release it is much harder to do, but these are just results to largely appease the Phoronix readers requesting such a comparison. Same graphics and cpu and memory,seems to be a difference in memory usage though. I think they used the default WM for the os. It was more of a real world test than a scientific one as it seems to me. I recon benchmarking can be quite fun and it does help when it comes to folk making large changes to the software we all use. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 They use Xfce for Slackware, but KDE is actually Slackware's default DE/WM, as least since I've been using it... Slackware 9. They're also using different versions of X and Radeon drivers, but that's probably because they're using the stock stuff from the generic install of each OS. Phoronix is usually a stickler for accuracy on these type tests, so I'm pretty sure there isn't anything fishy about this one. They tried to get the very different distributions pretty close before comparing them with their benchmark tests. What's it all mean? Nothing, really. I'm aware of the performance qualities of each of these distributions. I'm not going to dump Slackware for Fedora, though. If I were going to dump Slackware for any of those distros, it would be CentOS, actually. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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