Advanced

Benchmark for Linux desktops

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
Heise		Mail this story
Print this story

Almost two years after its initial announcement, the Linux Solution Group (LiSoG) has now presented specificationsPDF for its OSDtBench (Open Source based Desktop Benchmark) desktop benchmark suite and demonstrated a prototype at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin. According to LiSoG, public bodies in particular are placing increasing emphasis on benchmark results for comparing the performance of different computers.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Comments (3)

montezuma ·
There have been a lot of arguments in these parts regarding the speed of various distros. It would be nice to use this resource to test those claims on a series of machines and a series of distros. Then at last we could have some hard numbers and specific information on what exactly differs. I notice that Redhat and Suse have signed on but not Ubuntu. The scripts come out in a few days.

Hopefully people seriously comparing distros will attempt to use this.......
Sander_Marechal ·
Phoronix also does lots of distro benchmarking. I hope they add this to the Phoronix test suite.

There's a vast amount of data on Phoronix, but unfortunately it's scattered over many articles. It would be nice if they put all their benchmarks in one big table.
montezuma ·
I guess the difference is that Phoronix is aimed mainly at testing hardware drivers (particularly but not only video) while this new set of benchmarks is aimed specifically at common desktop functions.

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post