6-Way Winter 2014 Linux Distribution Comparison | Linux Today

6-Way Winter 2014 Linux Distribution Comparison

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Michael Larabel
Dec 10, 2014

With this week’s launch of Fedora 21, here’s a performance comparison of the new Fedora Linux release compared to the Arch-based Antergos rolling-release distribution, Debian GNU/Linux Jessie, openSUSE Tumbleweed, CentOS Linux 7, and Ubuntu 14.10.

These six Linux distributions were all tested with the same hardware that came down to an MSI X99S SLI PLUS motherboard with Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 ten-core processor plus Hyper Threading.

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Michael Larabel

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