Posted on 12/18/2009 4:50:37 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side.
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All operating systems were left with their default options during the installation process and left with the default set of packages for each operating system except for the obvious need to install some dependencies for the different tests. This is done to maintain a nearly "out of the box" experience that a majority of users will experience when trying out any of the operating systems. We had maintained the same proprietary graphics driver, the NVIDIA 190.42 display driver, to be used across all tested operating systems. The tests we ran through the Phoronix Test Suite on the Linux, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD installations were 1080p H.264 video playback, LAME MP3 encoding, Ogg encoding, 7-Zip compression, Gzip compression, LZMA compression, POV-Ray, C-Ray, dcraw, timed MAFFT alignment, GraphicsMagick, BYTE Unix Benchmark, Threaded I/O Tester, OpenSSL, PostMark, Himeno Benchmark, and John The Ripper. We also looked at some thermal and power consumption results too using the Phoronix Test Suite, which are shared later in this article. The 2.4 Lenvik development version of the Phoronix Test Suite was used.
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FreeBSD Techy type thing ping
Not sure where that gets discussed...
And then there is some hints of special stuff in OpenSolaris.,,,traces, etc.
I would guess for a desktop user ,...performance might be the main issue,...
I only commented on performance because, well, they were benchmarked for performance. LOL
BTW, Ubuntu is close to their stated goal of a flat or sub 10 second boot time on an Atom powered Netbook...
The reported boot time for Ubuntu 9.10 on the Mini 9 was 59 seconds, but only 24 seconds in comparison for Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1.
In the past, we had been able to boot Ubuntu 9.10 faster, but these are clean Bootchart results from Ubuntu 9.10 on a stock installation. The peak disk throughput was also higher under Ubuntu Lucid with a speed of 84MB/s compared to 79MB/s with Karmic.
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