news.cnet.com - 10/26/2009
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With all the hubbub about Snow Leopard and Windows 7, there's another operating system out there you may not have noticed that's getting a significant update: Ubuntu Linux.
Ubuntu backer Canonical plans to release its "Karmic Koala" version on Thursday, and both the desktop and server ...
roytanck.com - 27 days ago
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roytanck.com —
Yesterday, one week to the day after the
release of Windows 7, Ubuntu released version 9.10 of...
their Linux distribution . It’s got all sorts of new features that have been talked about extensively all over the web, but I just found out it also fixes a bug that’s been bothering me ...
(more)
I could just hug Karmic Koala!
slashgear.com - 10/26/2009
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Intel have pushed out their promised update to
the X25-M SSD , along with the Intel SSD...
Toolbox and Optimizer, the standout factor of which is a 40-percent increase in performance for the 160GB drive. With the new 34nm X25-M SSD, users can expect up to 100MB per second sequential write speeds. ...
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Intel X25-M SSD firmware update boosts write speeds 40%
hothardware.com - 30 days ago
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hothardware.com —
Intel Completes Wind River Acquisition In all of
our recent solid state disk (SSD) coverage that featured...
one of Intel's X25-M drives, a common, underlying performance trend consistently emerged. The Intel drives were always amongst the top performers ...
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M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
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Ubuntu's new Linux tries getting cloud-friendly
Webware.com —
... multiple operating systems run in compartments called virtual machines on one physical computer. Amazon's EC2 uses open-source virtualization called Xen, but Ubuntu's preferred foundation is another, KVM. Ubuntu 9.10, though, will be available in a Xen-based version that works on EC2.
"It's possible to build one machine image which works in both places," Shuttleworth said. "We went to a lot of trouble to make a version for 9.10 that works on EC2."
Originally posted at Deep Tech ...
Ubuntu Karmic Koala launches to mixed reviews
Open Source —
... Karmic Koala, has officially been launched at Ubuntu.
It comes in desktop and server editions, which have been getting wildly different reviews.
Reviews on the desktop version are negative, due to the fact you can’t run multiple drives with the current code base. This means a netbook user may be happy but a desktop user (my desktop has three hard drives) will not be satisfied at all.
The server version is getting stronger reviews thanks to its support for clouds. By using Eucalyptus the company has a decent cloud implementation ...
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