Taking a break from our graphics excitement last week with the release of AMD's 8.42.3 Display Driver, we have finished our largest (and most time consuming) Linux performance comparison to date. We have taken the last 12 major kernel releases, from Linux 2.6.12 to Linux 2.6.23, built them from source and set out on a benchmarking escapade. This testing also includes the Linux 2.6.24-rc1 kernel. From these benchmarks you can see how the Linux kernel performance has matured over the past two and a half years.
"First off, the hardware we had used for this large kernel round-up was the same as what we had used in our Linux For Older PC Hardware article where we had compared the performance of Fedora 7, Mandriva 2008 Beta 1, and SimplyMEPIS 7..."
