This article is just intended for showing the default performance of Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Given that this article is just a quick, one-page article, in a follow-up post I'll include some results when using the Mesa Git results built against LLVM 3.8 SVN. However, as noted already, Ubuntu 15.10's Mesa stack isn't built against a new version of Mesa thus lacks OpenGL 4.0/4.1 support by default. This comes down to an AMD R9 290 comparison with Linux 3.19 and Mesa 10.5.9 on Ubuntu 15.04 versus Linux 4.2 and Mesa 11.0 on Ubuntu 15.10. JavaScript is required to view these results or log-in to Phoronix Premium. In still working through a larger comparison and also now running into the lack of working AMD Catalyst support on Ubuntu 15.10, tonight to share are just some Radeon R9 290 'Hawaii' GPU numbers under Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 out-of-the-box. Once installed, open the Wireshark network protocol analyzer from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.While thwarted by some open-source Radeon DRM issues, here are some Radeon R9 290 'Hawaii' graphics card benchmarks between Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Run the following commands to install Wireshark network protocol analyzer on Ubuntu Systems:

Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text.

Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis.

Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2.

Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform).Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly.Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others.The most powerful display filters in the industry.Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility.

Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others.Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time.

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