How An Old Pentium 4 System Runs With Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10

[xeros]

Thanks for testing that, but why there's only one test with OpenGL game? There should be at least Nexuiz, too.
I'm really curious how more open source games work on these Ubuntu versions on R200 card.
Looking at OpenArena if on other games the FPS rate drop would be simmilar there's now no doubt why my friends with R200 cards install Windows XP for games (even open source games) on the second disk partition with recent Kubuntu versions.
I'm resting hopes in Gallium3D, that might give me some more FPS in both desktop effects and games on two R300 cards in my P4.

[Zhick]

After reading the title I actually expected an interesting article, that'd tell me about the desktop-performance of such an old machine. Y'know, things like the general responsiveness (snappyness) and memory-consumption (swapping kills desktop-performance).
Well, I guess I should've known better. I should've know it'd only be a bunch of meanigless pts-graphs with pretty much zero value for anyone who's actually interested in how well such an old system fares as simple desktop-system with the latest Ubuntus.

[bulletxt]

mmm.......... quite interesting....

Linux is really evolution. Evolution brings new "things", but loses others. Like humans loosing their tail

[phoronix]

Phoronix: How An Old Pentium 4 System Runs With Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10

Last October I wrote about running Ubuntu 9.10 with older PC hardware, but over this past weekend I restored an even older Phoronix test system to see how it runs with the most recent Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release and the very-latest Ubuntu 10.10 development snapshot in relation to the older Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS. This antiquated system has an Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB IDE hard drive, and an ATI Radeon 9200PRO AGP graphics card.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=15115