[Article] How An Old Pentium 4 System Runs With Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 5 23:27:11 BST 2010


Anyone read this?

<http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_pentium4_old&num=1>
[How An Old Pentium 4 System Runs With Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10
Published on July 12, 2010
Written by Michael Larabel]

The phoronix tests are rather interesting, as are the comments/discussions:

<http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24626>

The performance results between 8.04, 10.04 and 10.10 are pretty
startling in some of the tests (particularly Apache, PostfreSQL, and
Himeno).

Note: I'll be happy to take the "Old Pentium 4 System" from the author
any time he's willing to give it up... I could then replace my
1Ghz/384Mb test box :-)





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