[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“The server and workstation oriented benchmarks we ran
in this article across these three distributions were Apache,
PostgreSQL, SQLite, Dbench, IOzone, Threaded I/O Tester, C-Ray,
GraphicsMagick, John The Ripper, timed MAFFT alignment, GROMACS MD,
NAS Parallel Benchmarks, and SPECViewPerf 9. All of these tests
were run through the Phoronix Test Suite with Bardu Beta 1. CentOS
5.4, OpenSuSE 11.2 RC1, and Ubuntu 9.10 were all tested with their
default packages and settings, with the exception of disabling
SELinux on CentOS.“CentOS 5.4 is shipping with an updated Linux 2.6.18 kernel,
GNOME 2.16.0 desktop, X Server 7.1.1, NVIDIA 190.29 display driver,
GCC 4.1.2, and uses an EXT3 file-system by default. OpenSuSE 11.2
RC1 runs with the Linux 2.6.31 kernel, GNOME 2.28.0, X Server
1.6.5, NVIDIA 190.29 display driver, GCC 4.4, and uses the newer
EXT4 file-system by default. Lastly, with Ubuntu 9.10 we have the
Linux 2.6.31 kernel, GNOME 2.28.0, X Server 1.6.4, NVIDIA 190.29
display driver, GCC 4.4.1, and an EXT4 file-system. For all three
Linux distributions we were using the x86_64 builds. The final
releases of Ubuntu and CentOS were used, but due to OpenSuSE 11.2
not yet being officially available, we had used its first release
candidate. The hardware for this test system was made up of an
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 clocked at 3.00GHz, a Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R
motherboard (P45 + ICH10R), 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 160GB Western
Digital WD1600JS-00M, and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB graphics
card.”