After reading about the blazing fast boot time of Ubuntu 9.04 on Matt Cutts’ blog, I decided it was worthwhile to go for the upgrade on my MSI Wind U100-432US. Before the upgrade I made sure to install bootchart and manually measure the boot time as well.
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The newest version of Ubuntu was released today, version 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). Help ease the burden on Ubuntu’s servers and speed up your download by downloading your CD images over BitTorrent. Here are the links to the new torrents. ubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-rc-server-amd64.iso.torrent ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso.torrent
Continue reading The Jackalope is Jaunting!Yesterday on PCMag.com, Lance Ulanoff had a post stating that Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open any Doors for Android or Linux. I have to agree with Mr. Ulanoff, but not for the same reason. Windows 7 Starter Edition won’t open any doors because Windows Vista already opened the door.
Continue reading Windows 7 Won’t Close the Door For LinuxSure, you can upgrade Ubuntu over the net, downloading the updates from Canonical’s servers. You can even do it over the net with apt-p2p, downloading the updates from other users. However, if you have more than one computer to upgrade, it may be nice to download the updates only once. For the following procedure you …
Continue reading Upgrade Ubuntu with a CD ImageThe official release of Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope is fast approaching. When it’s released on April 23 you can be sure that Canonical’s servers will be getting slammed. That means the downloads are going to be slow. The good news is that they just let loose the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04. There should …
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