Which one is faster? Fedora or Ubuntu

[martin.sourada]

I just went through some phoronix benchmark comparing FC6, FD7, Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn and Ubuntu Edgy Eft and discovered that Fedora loses with Ubuntu in almost all cases. Also there seems to be some speed decrement between FC6 and FD7. But still, how I long for the final version...

The article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=658&num=1

[Dan]

Any of the *'buntus are much slower on my system ...
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But, I suspect that might be due to the fact that they are running from liveCDs. I won't give them any of my precious HDD space!

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[Dies]

Ubuntu is faster to boot than Fedora, once you're on the desktop though the only thing where it's noticeably faster is Synaptic, other than that it's about the same to me, no big difference.

[JN4OldSchool]

Interesting, I'd have bet differently! Brunson brought up a great point yesterday though. On what kind of hardware? Running what apps? What DE? Faster how? From power on to desktop, opening apps, shutting down...? How bloated is each install? Are we comparing Identicle installs with exactly the same apps and services running? And most importantly, who cares? Not to diminish your thread Martin, I mean that last question as more of a philosophical one, but if I love Ubuntu but found out Fedora was a curly hair faster would it matter? No, not with gnome vs. kde and not with distro vs distro either. I know for a fact Gentoo on my computer blows everything else away. Am I using Gentoo? Nope, too much work and I play with too many apps to compile everything. I am a tinkerer, gentoo is not meant for that. FC is. Besides, how much REAL difference are we talking anyway? FC runs plenty fast on my system as does any of the buntus. Just my curmudgeonly thoughts on the matter.

[b_martinez]

I have (K)(X)Ubuntu on my box, they all seem (subjectively) slower than FC5 & 6 on the same box. None are as fast as VL5.8 on the same box, but VL doesn't come in 64 bit configuration, so mebbe the comparison is invalid.
As soon as I have my buddy trained up to the point he no longer needs his hand held with Linux, I'm ditching 'buntu and installing Slackware and Debian Etch. None of the 'buntus are 'my mug of beer' if you know what I mean.
Bill

[Dies]

BTW

I just read that article and here's a quote from it:

"With Fedora Core 6 outperforming Edgy Eft in these tests"

So either one of us misunderstood or Martin was just out for a stroll this morning.

[aids]

if you want speed then just go to lunar linux

[Ibmercurial]

"I'm ditching 'buntu and installing Slackware and Debian Etch. None of the 'buntus are 'my mug of beer' if you know what I mean."

Could not agree more. Slackware and Slamd suit me better then all the other distros combined. Ubuntu should stay in Afrika until it grows up enough to become its' own distro. Volkerding is extemely conservative, That has worked for Slack all these years, but I just built on x86_64 architecture, and am grateful for Slamd. I'm running Fedora x86_64 at the moment. Getting a feel for the various 64 bit distros. Debian Etch works well. SuSE performs admirably too, but since novell has joined leagues with the devil..........

[martin.sourada]

Originally Posted by Dies

BTW

I just read that article and here's a quote from it:

"With Fedora Core 6 outperforming Edgy Eft in these tests"

So either one of us misunderstood or Martin was just out for a stroll this morning.

Well, I looked at the graphs and it seems Fedora is faster, than I read a bit of the article and looked again at the graphs, and thought Ubuntu is faster... So I will take one more look:
Enemy Teritory: Fedora faster (so I began to write this thread with good mood, that we beat Ubuntu)
Timed Disk reads: The same
GZip Compression: Ubuntu faster (at this point I misinterpreted the data and though that Fedora is way faster than Ubuntu, but then I realized that and chage the key words in the thread accordingly)
Lame compilation: FC6 fastest, FD7 slowest -> what to think about that?
Lame encoding: same as lame compilation

So.... Which one is a winner is rather, ehm, rhetorical question... But since I do not play games very much, for me the winner is Ubuntu, BUT I love Fedora and that's not about to change...

[sdowney717]

ubunuts apt-get and aptitude is faster than yum so far for me. ubunuts boots much faster
Otherwise, I see no discernable difference running either one of these.

[martin.sourada]

And after one more look:
Fiesty Fawn beats FD7, FC6 beats Edgy Eft, so we will see, how final version(s) will fare...

Quotes:
1. "However, with the system and set of benchmarks used, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 5 had outpaced Fedora 7 Test 2"
2. "With Fedora Core 6 outperforming Edgy Eft in these tests, once both Fedora 7 and Feisty Fawn are released later this year we will carry out these tests again to see if things have changed for either distribution."

[martin.sourada]

Originally Posted by sdowney717

ubunuts apt-get and aptitude is faster than yum so far for me. ubunuts boots much faster
Otherwise, I see no discernable difference running either one of these.

Boot time? I used to think it was important, than I discovered, that Fedora can handle my notebook well and stared using suspend to ram. Now I reboot only once or twice a week, so the boot time realy doesn't matter to me... But nontheless, you can significanlty increase the boot speed by tweaking with services which start during boot - most of them you don't need...

[pparks1]

Originally Posted by Ibmercurial

Ubuntu should stay in Afrika until it grows up enough to become its' own distro.

I'd say that Ubuntu is plenty grown up. It's a great distro for beginners and advanced users alike. This is not to say that it might fit your needs the best, but it certainly isn't a distro with major functionality problems either.

Performance wise for me, it's a toss up. They are both about the same speed running on the same hardware. Not enough difference for me to notice in any way.

[Dies]

Originally Posted by pparks1

I'd say that Ubuntu is plenty grown up. It's a great distro for beginners and advanced users alike. This is not to say that it might fit your needs the best, but it certainly isn't a distro with major functionality problems either.

Performance wise for me, it's a toss up. They are both about the same speed running on the same hardware. Not enough difference for me to notice in any way.

I agree 100%, even though I consider it a "n00b" distro, Ubuntu is one of the slickest, most polished distros out there. Do you get everything you get with other distros? no, but that's a CD compared to DVD. Also most don't need that anyways.
It does have it's quirks, but don't they all.

Edgy is awesome, I really want to like, I really do, there is a lot to like there, but for some strange reason it just doesn't "feel" right.

[Invader02]

Fedora feels slower than Ubuntu...

Boot up times and package managers are what really kill fedora's speed.