Phoronix has posted a review of the three flavors of Ubuntu that's likely to start some flame wars somewhere. This is part one of a two-part article that will try to determine which desktop environment runs best on the Ubuntu framework.

"We have taken two systems -- one with dual Intel Clovertown processors and the other an AMD Sempron -- and tested out each of these distributions in some of our commonly used Linux benchmarks to see how the performance truly stacks up."