test bench

FreeBSD 8.0 Benchmarked Against Linux, OpenSolaris

Linux Today  Mon, 11/30/2009 - 10:04

Phoronix: "With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite.

We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side."


 

openSUSE 11.2 on the test bench

Linux Today  Sat, 11/14/2009 - 10:03

The H Open: "A whole series of changes awaits users in openSUSE 11.2, including Ext4 as the default file system, boot loader Grub2 and a big move towards the KDE 4 desktop"