ubuntu is a operating system. The ubuntu has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.
2012-05-23-1241 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5620, Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Dell 01W9FG
2012-05-23 01:10:43 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507
2012-05-22 20:40:22 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507, Cirrus Logic GD 5446
2012-05-22 18:50:26 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507, Cirrus Logic GD 5446
test - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, AMD FX-4100, ATI Device 9715, ASUS M5A88-M
2012-05-21 19:50:01 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507, Cirrus Logic GD 5446
2012-05-20 18:00:52 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507, Cirrus Logic GD 5446
shirin - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Core i3 M 330, NVIDIA GT218, LENOVO
spe2 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Core i3 M 330, NVIDIA GT218, LENOVO
stream1 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Core i3 M 330, NVIDIA GT218, LENOVO
2012-05-19 19:40:56 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507, Cirrus Logic GD 5446
m4a78ltamdx6 - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 9.10, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, ATI 760G, ASUS M4A78LT-M-LE, Intel Core i3 530, NVIDIA G92, ECS H55H-M, Intel Core i7 920, ATI Radeon HD 5700, ASRock X58 Super
2012-05-18 09:20:17 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507, Cirrus Logic GD 5446
2012-05-16 22:20:30 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Xeon E5507, Cirrus Logic GD 5446
AMD Radeon Catalyst: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Now having compared the graphics driver performance between Microsoft Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 Linux for the NVIDIA driver with the GeForce GTX 680 and the multi-platform Intel performance for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, here's a look at the AMD Catalyst driver performance with the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card when running between Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux.
Ubuntu 12.04 Git'ed With Intel Ivy Bridge: As the Intel Ivy Bridge benchmarks being delivered on Phoronix and coming up in the coming days are frequently using the latest Intel Linux graphics development stack, for those curious here is a comparison between the stock Ubuntu 12.04 packages and when running the latest Linux kernel / Mesa / libdrm / xf86-video-intel Git DDX.
NVIDIA GTX 680: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04: Following up on the performance comparison earlier this month of comparing Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge graphics between Windows and Linux, up today are the results of a comparison of Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS when using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" graphics card.
Intel Sandy Bridge Is Shinier On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: For those curious about the performance changes for Intel Sandy Bridge hardware when moving from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04, here is a quick overview.
Ubuntu System Compositor: Wayland Plug-In, Not Fork: One of the more interesting technical sessions last week at the UDS-Q summit was concerning the Ubuntu 12.10 plans for a system compositor, which would be based upon Wayland. While I still view it as unlikely to happen in any meaningful way for Ubuntu 12.10, other developers have since expressed their views as well...
Ubuntu Developer Summit 12.10 Recap: The weeklong Ubuntu Developer Summit for the Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" wrapped up on Friday in Oakland, California. There was a lot of interesting notes shared on Phoronix from the UDS-Q event, so here's a summary of the most prominent happenings last week as the future of Ubuntu Linux was plotted.
Ubuntu Plans For Linux x32 ABI Support: With the x32 ABI for Linux finally coming together, Ubuntu developers are making plans to support this interesting ABI in the future...
Ubuntu Developers Discuss Using Mono AOT: Ubuntu developers are currently exploring the possibility of using Mono AOT to reduce start-up time, allow for better memory sharing, and for greater performance optimizations...
Ubuntu 12.10 To Further Binary Blob Handling: While things are coming to a close in Oakland at the last day of UDS-Q, there was an interesting session that concerns the future of third-party driver installation on Ubuntu 12.10 and future releases...
A GNOME Flavor Of Ubuntu - "GNOME-buntu": Thanks to growing user-interest, it looks like there is going to be a GNOME Shell flavor of Ubuntu to satisfy those who aren't fond of the direction of Canonical's Unity desktop...
Ubuntu Plans For A Future With Upstart: If you were hoping that Ubuntu 12.10 would mark the switch from Upstart to systemd for its init daemon, there was no surprise announcement and the Ubuntu developers are continuing to push for the advancement of Upstart...
Ubuntu TV Is A Popular Topic This Week: Last year plans began to surface for Ubuntu TV -- a version of the popular Linux distribution intended to be deployed by television manufacturers -- and during the Ubuntu Developer Summit this week there was much talk about the Ubuntu TV plans...