LXer: Fedora 7 to 10 Benchmarks
 

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Earlier this week we published benchmarks of all Ubuntu releases from 7.04 to the release candidate and had found the performance degraded with time, at least with the test system we used. As part of our testing to explore this issue, we had repeated many of the same tests on Fedora with all of their releases going back to Fedora 7. Has Fedora's desktop performance degraded too?

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IMO Ubuntu seems to get heavier (or more bloated) with every release. I think in an effort to make the OS more user friendly to the average user has required a lot of unnecessary bloatware that ultimately takes a toll on performance. I know the minimum requirements have increased since "Breezy".