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--- Professional experience ---
Kernel designer, engineer, maintainer and tester for ROSA Desktop and OpenMandriva Lx O.S.
--- currently I'm playing with ---
LTS Kernels > Linux 4.1.12-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.18.17-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.14.46-nrjQL
EOL Kernels > Linux 3.19.8-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.17.8-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.15.10-nrjQL
As shown in the 11-way comparison, Mageia 3 seems to remain in its own class as far as performance is concerned. For some reason, Mageia 3 is much slower than all of the other tested Linux distributions for many of the CPU-intensive benchmarks.