Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X

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“We used the same hardware and software configuration
as our earlier article when running this 64-bit Linux test. The
Apple Mac Mini was loaded with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 clocked at
1.83GHz, an Intel 945 + ICH-7M motherboard with integrated
graphics, 1GB of DDR2 memory, and an 80GB Hitachi HTS542580K9SA00
HDD. The kernel reported on OS X 10.5.6 is 9.6.0 i386, X Server
1.3.0-apple22, OpenGL 1.2 APPLE-1.5.36, GCC 4.2.1, and a Journaled
HFS+ file-system was used. Ubuntu 9.04 uses the Linux 2.6.28
kernel, X Server 1.6.0, xf86-video-intel 2.6.3, OpenGL 1.4 Mesa
7.4, GCC 4.3.3, and an EXT3 file-system. When installing Apple’s X
Code it ships with both GCC 4.0 and GCC 4.2, but we had enabled the
later version to be more comparable to the modern day GCC that the
Linux distributions are generally using. Both operating systems
were left running with their stock settings during the testing
process.

“For the Linux and Mac OS X benchmarking we used the Phoronix
Test Suite. We ran the same exact tests from our article last week,
which included Urban Terror, Java 2D Microbenchmark, LAME MP3
encoding, Ogg encoding, FFmpeg, timed PHP compilation, timed
ImageMagick compilation, 7-Zip compression, Gzip compression,
GnuPG, OpenSSL, BYTE Unix Benchmark, SciMark, SQLite, Crafty,
Threaded I/O Tester, PostgreSQL pgbench, Sunflow Rendering System,
Bork File Encrypter, and Java SciMark.”

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