"To recap the Ubuntu 8.10 packages, it ships with the Linux
2.6.27 kernel, GNOME 2.24.1, X Server 1.5.2, GCC 4.3.2, and was
using the EXT3 file-system. Our build of Ubuntu 9.04 was depending
upon the Linux 2.6.28 kernel, GNOME 2.25.5, X Server 1.6.0 RC 1,
GCC 4.3.3, and we opted to use the EXT4 file-system. OpenSolaris
2008.11 is based upon Solaris Nevada Build 101b, uses the 5.11
kernel with X Server 1.3, GCC 3.4.3, and the ZFS file-system.
During all operating system testing we were using the NVIDIA 180.22
display driver.
"All tests on Ubuntu Linux and OpenSolaris were run through the
Phoronix Test Suite. The tests we chose to run that were compatible
with both Linux and OpenSolaris were LAME MP3 encoding, Ogg
encoding, timed PHP compilation, 7-Zip compression, Gzip
compression, GnuPG, OpenSSL, GraphicsMagick, BYTE Unix Benchmark,
SQLite, Sunflow Rendering System, Bork File Encrypter, and Java
SciMark."
