They should have run the unix byte benchmark +q3 test or whatever is in use now under these two distro using 5 variables and all with firefox, thunderbird and something like xmms or amarok playing an internet stream (let say a tipical session for anyone) with gnome eyecandized with kde with a light windowsmanager like blackbox or e16 with x11 and an xterm and on init 3 (without q3 or if it exist a