compile 2 x Intel Xeon E5430 testing with a HP ProLiant DL360 G5 (P58 BIOS) and AMD ES1000 128MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. CentOS 7: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5430 (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 (P58 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 440GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Debian: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5430 (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 (P58 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 440GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: AMD ES1000, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 4.19.0-8-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Arch: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5430 (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 (P58 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 440GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 5.5.2-zen1-1-zen (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7 . 72.89 |======================================== Debian ... 108.10 |============================================================ Arch ..... 91.44 |=================================================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better CentOS 7 . 50.69 |================================================= Debian ... 53.94 |==================================================== Arch ..... 63.56 |=============================================================