Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Sep 2008 12:50 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
PHoronix has taken a look at several Linux distributions running on the Eee PC 901. "Late last month we published our preview of the ASUS Eee PC 901 and we shared our plans for a number of benchmarks using this netbook with Intel's Atom processor. Following our Linux desktop encryption benchmarks of the ASUS Eee PC 901 and Intel Atom N270 CPU we have a performance comparison of Xandros, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandriva on this low-cost netbook PC."
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Benchmark mistakes happen sure, but this doesn't mean it's always the case: RedHat is shipping a Perl version which is ten-times slower than the official Perl because they used a beta version as their basis for their package..
So no, it's not always the same sources and the difference can be sometimes very significant between distribution.
Investigating the reason why there's such difference would be interesting (could be memory usage: if a distribution has many daemon started, it could trigger swap usage which slow downs things a *lot*) but it's also significantly more work..
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2006-01-04
How come they can be _that_ different for these task? I mean, its the same hardware, almost the same kernel, similar libraries...