news.cnet.com - 11/16/2008
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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 such as mobile phones, but it emerged in ...
phoronix.com - 11/19/2008
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phoronix.com —
If all goes according to plan, the first
alpha release for Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope )
will be released tomorrow. It's not even been one month since the release of Ubuntu 8.10 , but this first alpha release will show early signs of what we can ...
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[Phoronix] Exciting Features For Ubuntu 9.04
phoronix.com - 11/10/2008
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phoronix.com —
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 ...
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[Phoronix] ATI X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
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Canonical bringing Ubuntu to ARM-powered devices
Engadget —
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
It was inevitable, really -- now that ARM processors are bound for netbooks and the like, it follows logic that ARM would tag team with Canonical to bring along Ubuntu support. The two firms have collaborated in order to "bring the full Ubuntu Desktop operating system to the ARMv7 ...
Canonical working on Ubuntu ARM
bit-tech.net News Feed —
With UK-based chip manufacturer ARM pitching its Cortex range of low-energy processors firmly at the growing netbook market, we're going to need an operating system that can run on the non-x86 hardware: enter Ubuntu. According to an article over on CNet ...
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CNET News - Business Tech 11/14/2008
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 ...
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