Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS Comparison

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Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS Comparison, "x264 2015-11-02 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",184.98,185.61,185.91,184.81,185.64 "Fedora 23",187.12,187.39,187.33,187.14,187.38 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",785.07,887.88,833.7,775.13,813.89,769.03 "Fedora 23",675.83,750.82,682.78,682.7,717.12,671.97 "CentOS 7 1511",695.48,716.05,742.31 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",412.3,404.94,409.26 "Fedora 23",283.22,242.03,281.12 "CentOS 7 1511",215.18,194.32,188.53 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",1948.465993,1963.623216,1960.134857 "Fedora 23",1964.057424,1675.008551,1790.374367,1796.625451,1681.750251,1935.086896 "CentOS 7 1511",1759.891408,1749.915523,1756.947381 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: GET", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",2320185.75,2207505.5,2320185.75 "Fedora 23",2096436.12,2066115.75,2070393.38 "CentOS 7 1511",2375297,2369668.25,2252252.25 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: SET", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",1689189.12,1697792.88,1858736.12,1569858.62,1620745.62,1574803.12 "Ubuntu 15.10",1661129.62,1584786.12,1745200.62,1779359.5,1715265.88,1754386 "Fedora 23",1547987.5,1652892.5,1589825.12 "CentOS 7 1511",1594896.38,1733102.12,1470588.25,1453488.38,1782531.25,1763668.5 "Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",36894.41,37698.58,36975.45 "Fedora 23",22813.49,22966.07,22817.56 "CentOS 7 1511",20076.89,19973.2,20409.08 "OpenSSL 1.0.1g - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",598.6,596.9,597 "Fedora 23",597.3,595.2,594 "OpenSSL 1.0.2e-fips - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Fedora 23",666.6,664.4,664.4 "OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "CentOS 7 1511",594.8,592.2,592.5 "CentOS 7 1511",594.5,593.3,590.4 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",14787.56,14923.32,14470.51 "Fedora 23",14592.77,14321.33,14120.6 "CentOS 7 1511",14955.25,14807.97,14758.34 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",2673.56,2685.23,2678.45 "Fedora 23",2693.66,2682.41,2674.47 "CentOS 7 1511",2642.35,2644.64,2648.69 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",284.46,281.91,283.75 "Fedora 23",296.16,294.69,297.29 "CentOS 7 1511",262.09,260.81,258.62 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: FT.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",8082.1,8183,8095.8 "Fedora 23",8203.59,8012.3,7865.62 "CentOS 7 1511",8205.19,7614.56,8168.9,8177.15,8148.16 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",242.73,245.04,245.17 "Fedora 23",236.08,235.43,236.01 "CentOS 7 1511",245.24,245.3,242.64 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",6944,6944,6756 "Fedora 23",6410,6410,6410 "CentOS 7 1511",5952,6250,6250 "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",0.040089,0.04006,0.03992 "Fedora 23",1176.411058,1177.434751,1178.738256 "CentOS 7 1511",1058.243476,1061.276427,1062.068843 "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",3054.848246,2762.324158,3082.562446,3235.824539,2701.092718,3118.873507 "Fedora 23",2362.093053,2399.011976,2981.284102,2600.494242,2444.265307,2596.984607 "CentOS 7 1511",1794.208594,1771.406605,1853.156715 "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",6865.812414,6820.31127,6805.216544 "Fedora 23",6996.114852,6910.040863,6934.131684 "CentOS 7 1511",4794.918073,4800.547737,4748.347001 "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",7533.235261,7515.106862,7497.74631 "Fedora 23",7799.137731,7830.814731,7809.875792 "CentOS 7 1511",6322.014458,6192.862413,6272.828183 "SQLite 3.8.10.2 - Test Target: Default Test Directory", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",24.306486129761,24.490696907043,24.418664216995 "Ubuntu 15.10",24.590488910675,24.730244874954,24.572021961212 "Fedora 23",25.544519901276,25.404350996017,25.547384977341 "CentOS 7 1511",32.593516111374,32.421958208084,32.366747140884 "Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",22.434409141541,22.55553817749,22.49725985527 "Fedora 23",22.550327062607,22.817915916443,22.808054924011 "CentOS 7 1511",21.554963111877,21.420096874237,21.512365818024 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",9.8995389938354,9.9009728431702,9.9198839664459 "Fedora 23",9.6553630828857,9.646096944809,9.6873137950897 "CentOS 7 1511",9.9748129844666,9.9340531826019,9.8518187999725 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",4.6249430179596,4.6488530635834,5.0486810207367,4.6007270812988,4.6947641372681,4.5275368690491 "Fedora 23",4.6069188117981,4.5269191265106,5.2334609031677,4.5160720348358,4.6130130290985,4.6042020320892 "CentOS 7 1511",5.2038841247559,4.6953291893005,5.3333249092102,4.7896540164948,4.7104578018188,4.7732801437378 "Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",28.007281064987,28.333551168442,28.15621805191 "Fedora 23",26.092214822769,26.067012071609,26.106013059616 "CentOS 7 1511",25.116000175476,25.16769695282,25.147841930389 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",114.66022086143,113.49657893181,112.75000786781 "Ubuntu 15.10",114.48667001724,112.58686494827,114.33827090263 "Fedora 23",108.36803913116,105.4604408741,105.19830799103 "CentOS 7 1511",104.03883481026,102.63482689857,102.37527179718 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",23.517,23.507,23.47 "Ubuntu 15.10",23.537,23.515,23.49 "Fedora 23",23.522,23.547,23.546 "CentOS 7 1511",23.589,23.61,23.611 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",9.5090589523315,9.3245859146118,9.3898689746857 "Fedora 23",9.3991510868073,9.7280540466309,9.2855429649353 "CentOS 7 1511",10.091048955917,9.5767040252686,9.5502121448517 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",78,77,77 "Fedora 23",76,76,76 "CentOS 7 1511",84,84,85 "PBZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",9.4549400806427,9.5395228862762,9.3960700035095 "Ubuntu 15.10",9.3378269672394,9.3777949810028,9.4442141056061 "Fedora 23",9.4661660194397,9.6662120819092,9.3705360889435 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",6.1103999614716,6.04363489151,6.0953319072723,6.0268712043762,6.0410108566284 "Fedora 23",6.1558589935303,6.2234799861908,5.9923939704895,6.1410868167877,6.1676731109619 "CentOS 7 1511",7.2202119827271,7.191376209259,7.1842429637909,7.4611020088196,7.5253610610962 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",11.755265951157,11.706421136856,11.692120790482,11.784638881683,11.7134578228 "Fedora 23",12.147837877274,11.882301092148,11.754323005676,11.538722038269,11.664729118347 "CentOS 7 1511",12.9969830513,12.912126064301,12.99104809761,13.05336689949,12.936753034592 "FFmpeg 2.8.1 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",10.017314910889,9.9128789901733,9.8037221431732 "Ubuntu 15.10",10.074246168137,9.9474070072174,9.8625848293304 "Fedora 23",9.7215001583099,9.9067931175232,9.9053339958191 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",73.328551054001,73.258323907852,73.254549980164 "Fedora 23",83.580540895462,91.5704600811,90.935931921005,83.393858909607,83.525995016098,83.678923130035 "GnuPG - Linux 4.3 Package File Encryption", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",14.293209791183,14.348249912262,14.190736055374 "Ubuntu 15.10",14.235662937164,14.273878097534,14.234210968018 "Fedora 23",14.028552055359,14.459213018417,15.635313034058,16.276620864868,15.986927032471,15.149682998657 "CentOS 7 1511",1143.3505878448,736.16005897522,264.41202712059,631.16118812561,98.874531030655,26.261030912399