Initial Findings: MeeGo 1.1 Netbook vs. Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook

[seagull7]

Is meego useful?

Which OS is more useful (practical) for the hetbook user?

[devius]

Having two distributions, each with a different filesystem, makes the numbers worthless for comparing the changes made between them to individual capabilities.

The point of this comparision is to test the performance they both offer with their default configurations.
BTW, with a similar netbook (minus the SSD) I got 23.5 FPS with Arch Linux, although mesa is version 7.8.3.

[smitty3268]

That is not very useful information. It would be much more useful if you did an Apples to Apples comparison where you had 4 data points to both distributions using both types of filesystems. Having two distributions, each with a different filesystem, makes the numbers worthless for comparing the changes made between them to individual capabilities.

I disagree. Most people are going to stick with the defaults, that makes it a useful comparison. Going the extra step of modifying the distro to provide the same filesystem as the competition could be an interesting test as well, but at that point you are testing how to best tweak a distro to perform better/worse rather than actually comparing the distros.

[sirdilznik]

MeeGo wins the most important tests, at least for me, the battery usage test and the disk transaction test. I wouldn't be buying a netbook for playing video games or encoding MP3s.

[Shining Arcanine]

MeeGo 1.1 was measurably faster with the PostMark disk benchmark than was Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook. MeeGo is one of the first Linux distributions deploying the next-generation Btrfs file-system by default, while Ubuntu 10.10 is still using the evolutionary EXT4 file-system, but in an upcoming Ubuntu release will switch over to Btrfs.

That is not very useful information. It would be much more useful if you did an Apples to Apples comparison where you had 4 data points to both distributions using both types of filesystems. Having two distributions, each with a different filesystem, makes the numbers worthless for comparing the changes made between them to individual capabilities.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Initial Findings: MeeGo 1.1 Netbook vs. Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook

Intel and Nokia last week rolled out MeeGo 1.1, which is now officially available for Intel Atom netbooks, the N900 handset, and in-vehicle "infotainment" systems. The netbook spin of MeeGo 1.1 is out there to compete with the likes of Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition, which was released just shy of a month ago. While nothing radically has changed with MeeGo 1.1 compared to the initial MeeGo 1.0 release from earlier this year, the software stack is updated so for the past few days we have begun conducting a performance comparison between MeeGo 1.1 and Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook. Here are some of our initial findings.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=15417