Shao Xuan wrote: >> When finished I will have tested 50 configurations of >> 6 independent >> browsers. This is not including Linux, because that >> would be much >> harder to support unless I had at least 5 people >> agree on a distribution >> which to test on. Seems like Ubuntu is the choice >> for most, though I've >> tested both 32-bit and 64-bit configurations of every >> system I can, >> despite having all except 4 being 32-bit. I'm doing >> this to see the >> overhead, which translates to productivity gain/loss >> for web developers >> at least, depending on the difference. Do you want >> me to test Ubuntu >> Linux 8.04 on the same platform? How about Fedora as >> a secondary, just >> to compare between two of the current popular >> distributions? I have all >> dvd/cd's at hand :-) >> >> I'll post full URL strings tomorrow regardless, >> graphs to follow if I >> have the patience to assemble and compute 60 >> configurations. (Opera has >> x86_64 in addition to x86 on Linux and FreeBSD >> platforms now, and >> Firefox on AMD64 Linux is x86_64 typically, making >> the count increase by >> 10 just for two browsers, not including Firefox 2.0 >> which I've done >> already for all tested platforms) >> >> James >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > Hello James, > > If you could test both ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron and fedora 9 sulphur, I would > be very appreciated. :-) I have used both ubuntu and fedora, although I'm > only using hardy right now. I want to know which is superior in web surfing. > Looking forward to your full URL strings tomorrow. > > Thanks, > shao xuan > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Keep in mind that as I am trying to be as fair as possible, I only am using one machine for the tests. I strongly believe this represents a popular choice in hardware, and this is what I have to work with. It is modern enough for the browsers to now even make it blip, so it should be fair enough. The problem is with testing all these systems, reloading constantly is needed and this takes time. Hence why I'm still up at 4:27 AM CDT. I'll definitely do Fedora 9 and I'll see if it's possibly to do Ubuntu 8.04. There won't be shiny graphs, you will need to plunk in each browser into the compare box for now. I'd need to separate every single element of every test on every browser on every platform on every architecture then plot to make a graph, and this is not something I'm looking forward to doing. At the moment I don't have enough time, trying to beat Firefox 3 on all other tests so I can get those done preferably before 6pm CDT.
PS: I'm in Central Texas, USA if you're wondering. James
