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Hands on: Canonical aims for the cloud with new Ubuntu One
Hands on: Canonical aims for the cloud with new Ubuntu One
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, is preparing to launch a new Web service called Ubuntu One, which will bring cloud synchronization and collaboration features to the Linux desktop. The service is under heavy development, but it is expected to be ...
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 Benchmarks
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 Benchmarks
phoronix.com — Last year we provided benchmarks looking at Ubuntu versus Mac OS X when it came to using... the latest releases for both software platforms at the time. Both operating systems had performed competitively -- in some tests, the Apple OS wound up on top ... (more) [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 Benchmarks
[Phoronix] OpenSolaris vs. Linux Kernel Benchmarks
phoronix.com — Earlier this week we delivered benchmarks of Ubuntu 9.04 versus Mac OS X 10.5.6 and found that... the Leopard operating system had performed better than the Jaunty Jackalope in a majority of the tests, at least when it came to Ubuntu 32-bit. We are back ... (more) [Phoronix] OpenSolaris vs. Linux Kernel Benchmarks
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X
phoronix.com — Last week we published Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.6 benchmarks where we compared the performance... of these two popular operating systems on a Mac Mini. With the OS X kernel currently being 32-bit but with support for 64-bit applications, we had used ... (more) [Phoronix] Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X
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