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[Phoronix] ATI X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
phoronix.com - 11/10/2008
[Phoronix] ATI X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
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Late last month we published system benchmarks of Ubuntu 7.04 through 8.10 and had found -- at least with the Intel notebook we were using -- that the performance had degraded with time. This article had then resulted in benchmarks of Fedora 7 through 10 and most recently were Mac OS X 10.5 vs. ...
[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
phoronix.com - 11/6/2008
[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
— phoronix.com — Last week we published Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 benchmarks from a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 and had found... Ubuntu's performance degraded peculiarly over the past year and a half. We then published Fedora 7 to 10 benchmarks covering the same time-frame and from ... (more) [Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks

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arm.com - 11/13/2008
ARM and Canonical to Bring Full Ubuntu Desktop Experience to Low-Power, ARM Technology-Based ...
— arm.com — Popular commercially-supported Linux distribution Ubuntu to be available on low-power ARM SoCs with rich integrated graphics and... video subsystems and a proven track record of low-power design (more) ARM and Canonical to Bring Full Ubuntu Desktop ...

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news.cnet.com - 11/16/2008
Ubuntu to run on ARM-based Netbooks
— news.cnet.com — Canonical has announced that it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system... specifically for ARM's Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures. ARM-based processors have traditionally been used in small devices ... (more) Ubuntu to run on ARM-based Netbooks

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ATI X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
DV Hardware — ... the performance had degraded with time. This article had then resulted in benchmarks of Fedora 7 through 10 and most recently were Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 benchmarks. In our original article we hadn't focused much upon the graphics tests and we were just using ATI's binary driver, but per a request from Canonical's Bryce Harrington, we have carried out some open-source graphics tests on Ubuntu 7.04 through 8.10 and we started with the ATI performance. Check it out at Phoronix. ATI X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu - More news at ...

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