XP SP3 and Ubuntu 8.04: performance tests
(Liferea is proving to be a major distraction and productivity brake today!) There’s a fascinating comparison of XP SP3 and Hardy Heron on Mohammed Saleh’s blog (nice, polished presentation of the results too). He ran his tests on an AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+ based system. The results and findings, while interesting, are perhaps not entirely surprising. Executive summary: XP for graphics and multimedia, Ubuntu for multi-tasking and disk intensive tasks.