[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“Last week we shared that we were benchmarking Ubuntu’s
current and past LTS releases and began by running graphics
benchmarks looking at how the proprietary drivers from the past
compare to open-source drivers from the present, but now we have
our assortment of system benchmarks to publish from the Long-Term
Support releases of Ubuntu 6.06.1, Ubuntu 8.04.4, and an Ubuntu
10.04 development snapshot. In this article, we are looking at how
Ubuntu’s performance has evolved over the past four years.“Like with our LTS graphics tests, we used an aging Lenovo
ThinkPad T60 notebook with an Intel Core Duo T2400 processor, 1GB
of system memory, an 80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00, and a Mobility
Radeon X1400 128MB graphics processor. Our assortment of benchmarks
provided by the Phoronix Test Suite for comparing the three Ubuntu
LTS releases to date included Apache, PostgreSQL, LZMA Compression,
7-Zip compression, Parallel BZIP2 compression, LAME MP3 encoding,
FFmpeg, GnuPG, Gcrypt, OpenSSL, C-Ray, MAFFT, IOzone, Dbench,
FS-Mark, GraphicsMagick, and Himeno.”