Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-30 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 30.09.2009 um 06:09 schrieb Randy Appleton: Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? Yes, this can happen. Regarding boot times ... I'm not sure why this is interesting. The best goal would be to make it unneccessary to boot/reboot a machine at all. My $0.02 Markus - - -

Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-29 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2009/9/29 Martin Olsson mn...@minimum.se: http://www.phoronix.com/ Their test suite is GPLv3 so you can reuse it! A more precise link: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ Best regards, david -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-29 Thread Randy Appleton
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Martin Olsson mar...@minimum.se wrote: Randy Appleton wrote: What tests would be most useful? It has been suggested to me... - Time to boot I think this one is important, but it's also very carefully analyzed by many others already. You have seen this

Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-28 Thread Randy Appleton
Hi! I'm a computer science professor considering offering an undergraduate research project. Does anyone know which of the major distributions is fastest? Has anyone timed various operations in Ubuntu vs RedHat vs Suse? I'm curious if it's quicker to log in, find a file, open a document, etc.

Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-28 Thread Martin Olsson
http://www.phoronix.com/ Their test suite is GPLv3 so you can reuse it! Martin Randy Appleton wrote: I'm a computer science professor considering offering an undergraduate research project. Does anyone know which of the major distributions is fastest? Has anyone timed

Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-28 Thread Randy Appleton
Hi! I'm a computer science professor considering offering an undergraduate research project. Does anyone know which of the major distributions is fastest? Has anyone timed various operations in Ubuntu vs RedHat vs Suse? I'm curious if it's quicker to log in, find a file, open a document, etc.