Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed 164
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from the pretty-snazzy dept.
tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware just posted an interesting review of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It includes an expanded set of OS benchmarks that they also performed on the previous LTS release (8.04), to see just how much the mainstream Linux distro has progressed in two years."
A solid review (Score:5, Insightful)
I never read Tom's any more, but maybe I'll start. I appreciate that they tracked down the cause of a performance regression between Hardy and Lucid. The only other site that routinely benchmarks Linux distributions is Phoronix, and those guys are prone to just throwing weird results out there with no explanation. The number of inexplicable, unrepeatable benchmark results posted over at Phoronix is huge and ever-growing. This benchmark from Tom's is much more useful.
Re:FINAL VERDICT: Not much has improved. (Score:3, Insightful)
Violation of freedom of speech: deleting posts, which didn't happen. Exercising your freedom of ignoring other people's speech: browsing at +2.
Re:Insanely impressed with this release. (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't see why Gnome must necessarily hide this sort of stuff in an obscure gconf setting. It's almost like Microsoft and the obscure registry settings.
In KDE, you right-click the title bar->configure window behavior->windows->buttons, and you can drag all the standard buttons and a few extra (sticky button, on top button, keeb below button, etc.) around the bar.
Re:Upgrading in place from the previous LTS? (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, you are perfectly correct. An operating system that doesn't hold the hands of the incompetent will never earn any market share. Kinda like manual transmissions - if it can't do all the work for the mindless zombie, it won't sell.