A Five-Way Linux Distribution Comparison In 2010

There was more variation in the test results when looking at the convex trimesh performance with Bullet, but Fedora was the fastest while Arch Linux still came out right behind this Red Hat community release. With this test, Arch and Fedora were faster than openSUSE 11.3 RC1 by 16%. Ubuntu 10.04 and PCLinuxOS 2010.1 ran at the same speed.

openSUSE 11.3 RC1 won its first test with the multi-threaded C-Ray benchmark while Arch Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, and Fedora followed behind.

With the new TTSIOD 3D renderer benchmark, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora were the fastest while PCLinuxOS and Arch Linux both were set behind being almost half as slow as the others.

With the MP3 encoding performance, Fedora 13 and Arch Linux were the fastest while openSUSE 11.3, Ubuntu 10.04, and PCLinuxOS 2010.1 were a step behind.