Where all these tests run from the same part of the harddrive? Or did the distros have their own partitions? If so, Feisty would be faster if it was in the first partition, as disk access is quicker nearer to the centre of the disk.
Also this previous Phoronix article has different things to say about the performance between Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 (especially lame):
Also this previous Phoronix article has different things to say about the performance between Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 (especially lame):
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