Ubuntu 10.04 LTS DE Offers Music Store, More

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]This guy gets a plus 1? For what? The last time I suggested Mac vs. PC benchmarks I got slaughtered with reasons why OS comparisons on a hardware site was ridiculous. Trust me, I know why. My point is, DO OPERATING SYSTEM BENCHMARKS TOM'S HARDWARE!!![/citation]

I don't necessarily want Toms to do the tests, I'd like to see them done on another site. Toms is about hardware.

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]This guy gets a plus 1? For what? The last time I suggested Mac vs. PC benchmarks I got slaughtered with reasons why OS comparisons on a hardware site was ridiculous. Trust me, I know why. My point is, DO OPERATING SYSTEM BENCHMARKS TOM'S HARDWARE!!![/citation]
It's not OS comparisons that are the issue, it's essentially a platform comparison. Legally, I can run Linux and Windows on the same machine, so making comparisons on the same hardware makes sense. I'm trying to find out which operating system will give my hardware better performance.

You can't legally do said test with OSX without getting your ass sued off by Apple. Which means you can't do an OS benchmark, you can only do a platform benchmark (since Apple claims to be a separate platform). Even if OSX was more efficient with it's hardware use, Windows and Linux will always win by brute force power at the same price points.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]It's not OS comparisons that are the issue, it's essentially a platform comparison. Legally, I can run Linux and Windows on the same machine, so making comparisons on the same hardware makes sense. I'm trying to find out which operating system will give my hardware better performance.You can't legally do said test with OSX without getting your ass sued off by Apple. Which means you can't do an OS benchmark, you can only do a platform benchmark (since Apple claims to be a separate platform). Even if OSX was more efficient with it's hardware use, Windows and Linux will always win by brute force power at the same price points.[/citation]

I'm pretty sure you can run Windows legally on a Mac (just not OSX on a non-Mac PC). So you can get a comparison of OS performance that way, though of course OSX would have things stacked in its favor in that scenario.

 

[Silmarunya]

Sounds good, but why on earth does EVERYTHING has to have social network integration these days? There are still people out here who don't use social networks and don't need their toaster to automatically update their facebook profile with the details about the bread used at breakfast. So why on earth should an OS be integrated with it?

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]Silmarunya[/nom]Sounds good, but why on earth does EVERYTHING has to have social network integration these days? There are still people out here who don't use social networks and don't need their toaster to automatically update their facebook profile with the details about the bread used at breakfast. So why on earth should an OS be integrated with it?[/citation]
Its Web2.0 man... get the net.

 

[figgus]

So, does this release finally fix the AMD chipset issues? I have been unable to get Ubuntu to run since I ditched Intel/nVidia last year. :-(

 

[razor512]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I don't necessarily want Toms to do the tests, I'd like to see them done on another site. Toms is about hardware.[/citation]

Why would tomshardware ever want to review hardware

anyway, tomshardware needs to do a test with software available for both linux and windows and also do test on things like bootup speeds, memory usage and just abut everything else that they did on those vista vs 7 benchmarks

do a very detailed comparison and then users will be able to find the overall fastest OS.

The most common things pretty much all users want in a computer is for it to be faster, so which OS allows your hardware to provide you with the best application performance?

 

[Tindytim]

All of you that are so interested in a 3 way test should really check out Phoronix, since they'll be doing a stack up of Win 7, OSX, and Ubuntu 10.04 soon.