CibbuanoUbuntu benchmarked against Windows 7
February 12th 2009 21:35
Many of those disgruntled users went over to OS/X, forking out the extra cash to have the Apple experience. I can't complain about that, other than the price, but it's definitely good value - Apple products are imbued with enough simple quality that makes the hefty price tag seem worth it.
Myself, I switched over to Linux, Ubuntu in particular, because I could get a cheap laptop running Ubuntu, with none of the shareware bloat that comes with Dell laptops, for just $500.
It's been a fun ride, but, sadly, I feel as though the newer versions of Ubuntu are still taking too long to boot. Yes, it's faster than an old XP install, which seems to get tired over time, complaining and plodding along. Ubuntu, on the other hand, never gets old enough for me to notice this problem. It's as fast as it ever was, fresh-faced and excited to start the day, but it still takes a while to start up.
There's been some concern over the newest version of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope, which will be released in March 2009.
The issue is that the newest version might be a little slower than previous versions, and that's not good.
TuxRadar has an informative post on a speed comparison between the new version of Ubuntu and the upcoming Windows 7... the results are interesting: Ubuntu Jauntry seems to do slightly better than Windows across the board, except for boot times.
Even better is the disk space: Windows 7 will take almost 8 GB of hard drive space, while Ubuntu saunters along at a lean 2.3 GB. That's a big difference, man, one that I don't take lightly.
The page also points out, correctly, that Windows 7 is still a long ways away from a release, which means, hopefully, that these metrics will all get shaved down nicely. From the post:
"Obviously we're Linux users ourselves, but our tests have shown that there are some places where Windows 7 really is making some improvement and that's good for competition in the long term. However, Linux isn't sitting still: with ext4 now stable we expect it to be adopted into distros fairly quickly."
Ideally, the competition will force both camps to make the OS smaller, tighter and faster, which is great news for all consumers.
*this image is from Blogulate
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