phoronix.com - 3/9/2009
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Finding a laptop that can run Linux is no longer much of a challenge. As we have shared in numerous netbook and notebook reviews , a majority off the shelf PCs shipping with Windows can easily be replaced with Linux and chances are most -- if not all -- of the components will "just work" on this ...
phoronix.com - 3/16/2009
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Late last month we looked at the Intel
X25-E Extreme SSD on Linux. We ran this high-performance...
solid-state drive within a System76 Serval Notebook and compared its performance to a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 SATA HDD. During that testing we were just ...
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[Phoronix] File-System Benchmarks On The Intel X25-E SSD
phoronix.com - 3/10/2009
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This year NVIDIA has been following the "release
early, release often" mantra with it seeming like two...
weeks can't even go by without seeing a new Linux driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of their legacy drivers ...
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[Phoronix] What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?
phoronix.com - 3/11/2009
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phoronix.com —
This year NVIDIA has been following the "release
early, release often" mantra with it seeming like two...
weeks can't even go by without seeing a new Linux driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of their legacy drivers ...
(more)
What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?
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System76 Serval Professional Notebook
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... and other major vendors have been offering Linux notebooks for some time now. One of the smaller vendors though that has been offering Ubuntu Linux notebooks (along with desktops and servers) is System76 Inc. This Colorado-based company not only ensures their hardware is 100% compatible with Ubuntu Linux, but they also preload some popular software packages that are not installed by default on Ubuntu. In this review we are looking at the System76 Serval Professional notebook. Link: Phoronix
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File-System Benchmarks On The Intel X25-E SSD
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... on Linux. We ran this high-performance solid-state drive within a System76 Serval Notebook and compared its performance to a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 SATA HDD. During that testing we were just using the default EXT3 file-system, but now we have taken the Intel X25-E SSD for another spin as we looked at its performance when using the ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, EXT3, and EXT4 file-systems. [image] We used the System76 Serval Notebook for our tests with its Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor, Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset, 4GB of system memory, the 32GB Intel SSDSA2SH032G1GN SATA SSD, ...
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