The Other Issue With Ubuntu 11.10: Boot Speed
At its core, Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" isn't a bad release aside from the regressions in boot time and the likelihood your system is still going through increased power consumption compared to previous Ubuntu releases or Microsoft Windows. Aside from that, there shouldn't be any other major setbacks in performance from the testing I've carried out recently and going back months in testing of Oneiric snapshots. Ubuntu 11.10 has a pleasant open-source graphics driver stack in place for Radeon/Nouveau/Intel, the latest hardware support, GCC 4.6, the Linux 3.0 kernel, and other worthwhile improvements when tearing away the Unity interface -- at least that is improved too with Ubuntu 11.10.
Other upcoming tests on Phoronix include a look at the Ubuntu 11.10 performance in a KVM virtualized guest with every Ubuntu release going back to Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, more graphics driver benchmarks, Ubuntu full-disk encryption with AES-NI (to complement the AES-NI eCryptfs home directory tests), a continued look at various Linux power regressions, and other Linux hardware benchmarks. Also coming is the NVIDIA version of The Most Comprehensive AMD Radeon Linux Graphics Comparison. Soon after that, the focus will then turn to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For other test requests, let me know in the forums, find me on Twitter, or contact me.
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