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[Phoronix] OpenSolaris vs. Linux Kernel Benchmarks
Earlier this week we delivered benchmarks of Ubuntu 9.04 versus Mac OS X 10.5.6 and found that the Leopard operating system had performed better than the Jaunty Jackalope in a majority of the tests, at least when it came to Ubuntu 32-bit. We are back with more operating system benchmarks today, ...
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 Benchmarks
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 Benchmarks
phoronix.com — Last year we provided benchmarks looking at Ubuntu versus Mac OS X when it came to using... the latest releases for both software platforms at the time. Both operating systems had performed competitively -- in some tests, the Apple OS wound up on top ... (more) [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 Benchmarks
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X
phoronix.com — Last week we published Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 benchmarks where we compared the performance... of these two popular operating systems on a Mac Mini. With the OS X kernel currently being 32-bit but with support for 64-bit applications, we had used ... (more) [Phoronix] Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X
[Phoronix] Phoronix Test Suite 2.0 Enters Alpha
phoronix.com — Last month the plans for Phoronix Test Suite 2.0 "Sandtorg" were outlined with this next major release... of our Linux (and Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, and BSD too) benchmarking software set to introduce many new features for the testing core, Phoromatic for ... (more) [Phoronix] Phoronix Test Suite 2.0 Enters Alpha
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