FreeBSD/PC-BSD 10.3 vs. Linux Benchmarks

FreeBSD/PC-BSD 10.3 vs. Linux Benchmarks: With FreeBSD 10.3 having been released followed by the desktop-oriented PC-BSD 10.3 release that's running rather nicely, I decided to run some open-source performance benchmarks atop PC-BSD 10.3 x64 compared to various Linux distributions.