Kicking Off April With An Eight-Way BSD/Linux Comparison

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 3 April 2017 at 12:02 PM EDT. Page 5 of 5. 12 Comments.
BSDs vs. Linux March 2017
BSDs vs. Linux March 2017
BSDs vs. Linux March 2017
BSDs vs. Linux March 2017

Those wishing to dig through more benchmark results can see this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. While there are many factors to consider when judging an operating system for production use-cases, for those curious about the straight-up numbers of wins/losses:

$ phoronix-test-suite  winners-and-losers 1703305-RI-BSDLINUX346
BSDs vs. Linux March 2017
RESULT COUNT: 34

WINS:
Clear Linux 14200:      10  [29.4%]
Antergos 17.3:          10  [29.4%]
Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS:     6   [17.6%]
FreeBSD 11.0:           2   [5.9%]
Ubuntu 17.04 20170330:  2   [5.9%]
Scientific Linux 7.3:   2   [5.9%]
DragonFlyBSD 4.8:       1   [2.9%]
TrueOS BSD 20160322:    1   [2.9%]

LOSSES: 
FreeBSD 11.0:           8  [23.5%]
TrueOS BSD 20160322:    6  [17.6%]
Scientific Linux 7.3:   6  [17.6%]
Ubuntu 17.04 20170330:  6  [17.6%]
Clear Linux 14200:      4  [11.8%]
Antergos 17.3:          2  [5.9%]
DragonFlyBSD 4.8:       1  [2.9%]
Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS:     1  [2.9%]

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