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7-Way Linux Distribution Comparison For Summer 2016

Clear Linux managed a narrow win for the x264 video encoding test.

Scientific Linux 7.2, Debian Testing, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS were leading when it came to delivering the fastest compile times. These faster distributions were also the ones shipping with older versions of the GCC compiler.