Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook, More 193
An anonymous reader writes "Using the latest build of Google's Chromium OS source code, Phoronix built it out to run on a Samsung netbook and ran sixteen benchmarks, putting it up against Moblin 2.1, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, openSUSE 11.2, and Fedora 12. They ran some of their usual desktop benchmarks (encoding, video, etc..), but more interestingly they ran a number of battery, CPU usage, and memory consumption tests under different settings that show some of the advantages and disadvantages for each of the Linux distributions, and spotted a few bugs along the way."
Re:If you really care about Linux performance... (Score:5, Funny)
Let's stop calling it "Chrome OS". (Score:5, Funny)
Face it, "Chrome OS" isn't an operating system in any way. It's a web browser running on a Linux distribution. Nothing more, nothing less.
A more appropriate name for it is "Chrome Fullscreen".
Re:Let's stop calling it "Chrome OS". (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How? (Score:3, Funny)
Comparing them to Chrome is nothing less than comparing Apples to Oranges.
I've never heard of an Orange. Is it similar to an Apple Mac?
:P
Re:Let's stop calling it "Chrome OS". (Score:5, Funny)
Funny, I thought Linux was a Kernel.
Since we're being pedantic and all.
Not the banchmarks I care for. (Score:3, Funny)
While Ubuntu Netbook Remix (soon to be "Edition") owns Moblin in most graphs the reason I switched to moblin was because of its fast start up, about about 20 seconds.
Another distro xPUD boots in about 10 seconds, but flash doesn't work out of the box.
However, while youtube runs beautifully in moblin (including fullscreen!) other flash games are too slow and there is still no shockwave, so what I want is a linux that boots fast, runs flash ok and runs shockwave somehow (maybe with wine?) and the more of these features that run out of the box the better, for anything else I can use the terminal.
Re:How? (Score:2, Funny)
http://shop.orange.co.uk/iphone/choose-your-plan
Re:Let's stop calling it "Chrome OS". (Score:5, Funny)
Funny, I thought Linux was a Kernel.
Since we're being pedantic and all.
Pedantic-Man(tm) says you should not have capitalized the word 'kernel'. Just sayin'.