Linux Mint 13 Through Linux Mint 17 Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Mint 13 Through Linux Mint 17 Benchmarks

With the imminent release of Linux Mint 17 "Qiana", here are some new benchmarks of the Linux Mint 17 release candidate compared to the past four stable releases of the Ubuntu-based distribution: Linux Mint 16, Linux Mint 15, Linux Mint 14, and Linux Mint 13 while all are running the Cinnamon Desktop Environment.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=20430

[ov1d1u]

I'm reading Phoronix from a while but I never understood what these are? Can someone explain?

[Michael]

I'm reading Phoronix from a while but I never understood what these are? Can someone explain?

Indicator of variance in the test results between the individual test runs, correlates to the "SE" value reported to the left of the bars.

[philipmorris]

Wow. That's is what you get for getting stuck with mint 13 and they stupid update system.
Ubuntu 12.04 is automatically updated to 12.04.4 and you see in the next article show a big difference between both.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1404_desktop&num=1

anyways both sucks.

[Bernard Swiss]

I don't get it...

These were done with Mint 17 RC, right?

What's the point of doing a set of comparison tests like this -- for a Release Candidate?