"With Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 having made it out yesterday, we
couldn't resist but to run some new benchmarks of the Lucid Lynx
after our original tests last month found Ubuntu 10.04 was off to a
poor performance start. In some areas the performance of Ubuntu
10.04 LTS Alpha 2 remains lower than in Ubuntu 9.10 -- largely due
to performance regressions upstream in the Linux kernel -- but we
have also included some very early performance numbers from Fedora
13.
"While Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx has already had two development
releases, Red Hat has not yet put out any development releases for
Fedora 13. The first and only alpha release of Fedora 13 is planned
for the middle of February while a beta release will come at the
start of April and then the final release will enter the world
towards the middle of May, assuming there are no delays. With that
said, Fedora 13 is still heavily in development and will certainly
change a lot between now and then (especially with how closely they
follow some packages and their upstream involvement), but we have
included benchmark numbers from the 2010-01-13 nightly compose
desktop image of Fedora Rawhide. Beyond being an early snapshot of
Fedora 13, Red Hat enables numerous debugging options within their
Rawhide kernel and other packages that are then disabled prior to
the official release. These debugging options can impair the
system's performance, but as with all Fedora and Ubuntu releases,
we will be back with many more benchmarks throughout the
development cycle. These Fedora 13 numbers should just be looked at
for reference purposes."
