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The LXF Benchmark: Desktop environments
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| It's widely accepted that Gnome and KDE are the heaviest Unix desktops, while
| Xfce is lighter and faster. Yet many accuse Xfce of piling on the pounds in
| recent releases, and debates rage on as to whether Gnome or KDE is the king
| of the memory munchers. So we've gathered together some extensive benchmarks
| to find out the real story.
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| A desktop environment (DE) is not a window manager (WM) - the latter is a
| program which only draws and manages all the windows on your screen. A
| desktop environment is a homogeneous collection of tools, from window and
| file managers to hardware configuration utilities and (theoretically) any
| other application you may ever need. "Homogeneous" means that all pieces
| share the same base libraries and design guidelines, reusing interfaces (eg
| the file selector) and communicating with one another in various ways, from
| copy and pasting to opening a browser whenever you click on a URL.
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http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=771
Yesterday:
Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
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| In Nexuiz, World of Padman, and Unreal Tournament 2004 to represent gaming on
| the Linux operating system, the results were virtually identical. To the
| Linux gamer, switching to EXT4 or XFS will not really mean much in the way of
| improved frame-rates. If though you deal with compressing files often, of the
| four file-systems tested, the best appears to be EXT4 or XFS. When it came to
| multimedia encoding, we cannot call a decisive winner. In our GnuPG
| encryption test, EXT3 was the fastest followed by XFS. However, in the Bork
| encryption test, EXT4 was the fastest followed by EXT3. EXT3 does still
| appear to have some advantages.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks&num=1
Related:
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, & Xubuntu Benchmarks
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| With Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu each deploying a different
| desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, and Xfce respectively), how
| do each of these distributions compare performance-wise? We
| have taken two systems -- one with dual Intel Clovertown
| processors and the other an AMD Sempron -- and tested out
| each of these distributions in some of our commonly used
| Linux benchmarks to see how the performance truly stacks up.
| In this article we will be presenting part one of our results.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=650&num=3
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