Benchmarking Various Linux Distributions With Amazon's EC2 Cloud In 2017

The SQLite results varied a fair amount with Debian 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 performing the best while CentOS 6.7 was the slowest.

Debian Jessie's older Go packages led to it running the slowest among the distributions tested with Golang while Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Amazon 2017.03 were performing similarly.

John The Ripper's performance was close among the tested distributions in Amazon's cloud.

Amazon Linux and CentOS 6.7 had a narrow lead in the timed Apache compilation test.

The distributions with the older GCC releases were compiling the Linux kernel faster.