arstechnica.com - 6/10/2009
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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 particularly noticeable.
In a ...
arstechnica.com - 6/17/2009
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arstechnica.com —
Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is the next
major release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Karmic
is scheduled to arrive in October, but developers can get an early look by testing the latest alpha release, which was made ...
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First look: Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 2 brings Ext4, GRUB 2
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