Fedora 18 Fails At ARM Wrestling Arch, Ubuntu, Linaro

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 19 January 2013 at 02:44 PM EST. Page 4 of 4. 8 Comments.

There's no real performance improvement for the PandaBoard ES on Fedora 18 Beta ARM over Fedora 17 in these many computational tests. The Fedora ARM performance from the Texas Instruments OMAP4460 SoC is still much worse than Ubuntu/Linaro, which seems like it is a problem with the OMAP4 kernel shipped by Fedora.

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