15-Way Linux Distribution / Operating System Comparison, Including Windows 10 & WSL

[phoronix]

Phoronix: 15-Way Linux Distribution / Operating System Comparison, Including Windows 10 & WSL

As part of the large Linux performance tests we have begun and continuing through June with Phoronix celebrating its 14th birthday next week along with the 10th anniversary of the Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 release, for your viewing pleasure today is a 15-way Linux distribution / operating system comparison testing not only the leading and latest Linux distributions but also Windows 10 April 2018 Update and Linux on Windows WSL.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=26361

[tildearrow]

Typos:

The updated Solus 3 Linux distribution ahead of Solus 4 provides the Linux 4.1 kernel, Mesa 18.1.0, and GCC 7.3.0 compiler atop EXT4.

(are you sure it's 4.1?)

with this Intel NVme SSD device

(NVMe)

With FFMpeg video

(FFmpeg)

[Danielsan]

I believe that a comparison without an opinion is somehow incomplete, probably running a test with so many OSs it is hard by itself but I read just a synthetic report.

In base a this comparison I can say that overall the best distro is Debian because, despite it doesn't receive any tuning like the others distros do, it won in some tests and it had a very good average; and it has a lot of room for tuning and making it the faster...

[gilboa]

Q: Why Fedora workstation and not Fedora server? In my experience the different base package set makes a measurable difference.

- Gilboa

[Michael]

Q: Why Fedora workstation and not Fedora server? In my experience the different base package set makes a measurable difference.

- Gilboa

Because the other distros were tested with their desktop state too. This was testing on a Core i9, not a Xeon or EPYC.

[Michael]

I believe that a comparison without an opinion is somehow incomplete, probably running a test with so many OSs it is hard by itself but I read just a synthetic report.

In base a this comparison I can say that overall the best distro is Debian because, despite it doesn't receive any tuning like the others distros do, it won in some tests and it had a very good average; and it has a lot of room for tuning and making it the faster...

I recapped it at the end but not offering an 'opinion' when there goes more into judging a distribution for use besides just outright performance like licensing / enterprise support, etc etc. And in the end it's up to the user to judge it for themselves with what is most important to them, I am just presenting the data.

[deant]

Debian should turn testing to main. It is stable and as seen above - faster.

[schmidtbag]

Debian should turn testing to main. It is stable and as seen above - faster.

Get ready for people to ream you out for thinking that way (don't worry, I don't have a problem with what you said).

[andyprough]

I believe that a comparison without an opinion is somehow incomplete, probably running a test with so many OSs it is hard by itself but I read just a synthetic report.

In base a this comparison I can say that overall the best distro is Debian because, despite it doesn't receive any tuning like the others distros do, it won in some tests and it had a very good average; and it has a lot of room for tuning and making it the faster...

You could also argue that openSUSE (both versions) and Centos all excelled. They were each run with lower performance file systems, and yet each of them were winning or doing above average in several categories.

[dungeon]

Debian should turn testing to main.

Don't worry, it will turn after freeze as usual