Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 Benchmarks: Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? October 27, 2008, 17:40(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) It ain’t just Vista. Just a few days away from the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, Phoronix benchmarked several versions of Ubuntu. Major slowdowns after Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” in so many different tests certainly weren’t what we had expected.