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Workstation Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux

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http://www.phoronix.com – with the first round consisting of Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OS X vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu benchmarks -- are currently being done atop a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 notebook that is quite popular with business professionals. (Distributions)

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Lenovo ThinkPad W510 Notebook Since July we have been testing a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 notebook under Linux and have already published a variety of Linux benchmarks.

Hello,

I am trying to get ubuntu to dual boot with windows 8 on my notebook. Whenever I boot up, it goes directly to windows. The notebook is a lenovo z580 that came preloaded with windows 7. I did a clean install for windows 8.

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I have my old lenovo R61 ThinkPad with a new harddrive and Windows xp installed but not activated since my windows product key expired after graduation or somthing like that.

I would like to start using ubuntu but I can not figure out how to install ubuntu onto my thinkpad without a currently opperating os. I already downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 to a USB from my desktop.

Now what? Please help!

As a prelude to the forthcoming Windows 7 vs. OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks that are looking at how Intel OpenGL graphics compare between the operating systems, here's some Intel Sandy Bridge benchmarks that provide a historical look at how the Linux kernel -- and upgrades to the...

As a prelude to the forthcoming Windows 7 vs. OS X 10.8 vs.

I have a ThinkPad w510 with Ubuntu 10.04.3 installed on it, and it runs well just the only problems i have is that it does not suspend or hibernate usually. If i shut the lid it will go into sleep but when i reopen it the network will not connect and the computer screen is dimmer and will not be turned back up.

I have several long running benchmarks (SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks) to run on a Linux server.

The server is running Gentoo Linux with a Linux Kernel 3.6.11.

I saw some big differences between different runs and I'm thinking that it could be some problem with my configuration.

I'm the only user of the server. I have already disabled the CPU frequency scaling feature of the kernel.

Dan Kegel has been running some DirectX and OpenGL benchmarks on Ubuntu + Wine and Windows Vista, Here is the results of Dans recent benchmark test.

Yagmarkdata now has data from five different benchmarks: 3dmark 2000, 2001, 2006 and heaven2_opengl, d3d9, and running on a semi-whimpy e8400 dual core box with an nvidia gt 220 card, on both Vista and Ubuntu+Wine.

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Earlier today we put out benchmarks of ZFS on Linux via a native kernel module that will be made publicly available to bring this Sun/Oracle file-system over to more Linux users.