Tag Archives: Ubuntu

French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu

Posted on 2009-03-13 by Niels R.

Always nice to see positive stories about migrations from Windows to Linux. This time it’s the French police. Read the full article on Ars Technica.

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NetworkManager 0.7.0 doesn’t manage my network

Posted on 2008-10-30 by Niels R.

After an upgrade of my desktop machine to Ubuntu 8.10 Beta the NetworkManager in GNOME makes a mess of my network settings (Say truely, which “manager” doesn’t make a mess out of the thing he/she needs to… manage :p). Anyway… … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu is slowing down

Posted on 2008-10-28 by Niels R.

The guys (or are they girls?) at Phoronix have done some benchmarking with Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10 Beta. It seems that the oldest release is still the fastest… Hopefully, Canonical and its Ubuntu team will work their asses … Continue reading →

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LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Posted on 2008-10-03 by Niels R.

At the Linux Plumbers Conference, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds. The hardware was an Asus … Continue reading →

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