ubuntu.com - 10/23/2009
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Empathy has replaced Pidgin as the default instant messaging client, introducing the Telepathy framework . The gdm 2.28 login manager by William Jon McCann is a complete rewrite compared to the version in earlier Ubuntu releases, permitting a more integrated login experience. Evince, the GNOME ...
phoronix.com - 10/23/2009
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There is just one week left until Ubuntu
9.10 "Karmic Koala" will be released, but is it...
worth the upgrade if you are running a netbook? From our testing of the development releases, it is most certainly worth the upgrade, especially when compared to ...
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[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Performance
phoronix.com - 10/29/2009
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phoronix.com —
Last week we looked at the Ubuntu 9.10
netbook performance with two Atom-powered netbooks comparing the Karmic...
Koala numbers against that of Ubuntu 9.04. For the most part, Ubuntu 9.10 offered better performance over its predecessor, but there were a ...
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[Phoronix] Running Ubuntu 9.10 With Older PC Hardware
ubuntu.com - 10/29/2009
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Email and chat Chat with friends and colleagues
through Empathy which integrates: Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL,...
QQ and many more. Evolution gives you email, an address book and a calendar and works well with colleagues and friends using MS ...
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Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour
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Can't Wait Another Week for Ubuntu 9.10? Download the Release Candidate Today
Maximum PC —
... jobs for faster boot times, Empathy has replaced Pidgin as the default messaging client, the latest release ships with Ubuntu One, a personal cloud computing app allowing you to backup, store, sync, and share data with other Ubuntu One users, Canonical claims the inclusion of new Intel video driver architecture solves "major performance problems," the new ext4 file system is now used by default, and a whole bunch more.
See the full list of changes (and known problems) here, and if you're itching to try out the RC, you can download your copy here. ...
Ubuntu 9.10 brings web sync, faster bootup, GNOME 2.28
Ars Technica —
... "A faster, more beautiful boot and login sequence, file and contact synchronisation through online services and great experiences on the most popular notebook, desktop and netbook models continue to drive Ubuntu into the mainstream of computing choices." The Ubuntu development community has also released updated versions of the Ubuntu server and netbook editions along with a number of other variants such as KDE-based Kubuntu. For more details check out the feature tour and official release notes . Users can download the new version from the Ubuntu Web site. ...
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Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04
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The growing adoption of the Linux operating system on netbook devices has compelled Linux distributors to focus on improving startup performance. Ubuntu 9.04, which was released last month, is one distribution where these improvements are ...
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4 Benchmarks
phoronix.com 8/21/2009 — Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4 was released last week and with all of its updated packages and changes compared to Ubuntu 9.04, we decided to carry out a fresh round of benchmarks comparing Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4. We used a Samsung NC10 for testing ...
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