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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Battles Fedora 17 On Intel Ivy Bridge

The IOzone write performance was effectively the same between the tested Fedora and Ubuntu configurations.

Both Linux distributions were using EXT4 as the root file-system, but both Ubuntu releases were faster than Fedora for the initial create test within Compile Bench.