Show Your Support: This site is primarily supported by advertisements. Ads are what have allowed this site to be maintained on a daily basis for the past 19+ years. We do our best to ensure only clean, relevant ads are shown, when any nasty ads are detected, we work to remove them ASAP. If you would like to view the site without ads while still supporting our work, please consider our ad-free Phoronix Premium.

OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu Linux: A Battle With No Clear Winner

There's some very weird performance regression for the Mac Mini when running C-Ray on OS X 10.8.0, but when comparing OS X 10.7.4 to the two Ubuntu Linux releases, OS X Lion came in performance-wise right between Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10.

Gzip compression was faster with OS X than Ubuntu.

The dcraw image conversion program was faster on Apple's operating system than Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Linux came out ahead with the Sudokut program.