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Is Redmond Getting Its Groove Back?
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| Can this really be true? Can Microsoft be gaining ground through it all?
| LinuxInsider couldn't resist asking around.
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| "I don't think Microsoft is getting its edge back," Montreal consultant and
| Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told LinuxInsider.
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| "Windows 7 is better than Vista, but still more of a resource hog than XP
| was," Mack explained. "Meanwhile, Linux has been lowering its hardware
| requirements. Previously it managed Vista-level desktop effects with less
| than XP resources."
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67630.html
Linux is well ahead already.
Solid State Drives Preparing to Dominate
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| As an indication of the performance increase you might expect by replacing a
| hard drive with an SSD, a quick test using a $99 32GB Crucial Internal 2.5"
| Solid State Drive reduced the time required to boot Ubuntu 8.04 to 18 seconds
| on a test system, compared to the 32 seconds required to boot the operating
| system using a fast SATA II hard drive on the same system. (This is not
| intended to be a rigorous test but goes some way to illustrating the
| significant improvements in read times that an SSD can offer.)
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/datbus/article.php/3831131/Solid-State-Drives-Preparing-to-Dominate.htm
Recent:
SanDisk releases faster netbook solid state disk drives
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| Engineers from SanDisk and Canonical Ltd., creator of the Ubuntu Linux-based
| operating system, have worked together on system optimizations for the Gen2
| pSSD, resulting in improved system responsiveness and longer battery life,
| SanDisk said in a statement.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9133778&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top
IBM ships SSDs for Power Systems
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| IBM today begins selling its first solid state disks for its Power Systems
| boxes, the machines it uses to attack the Unix, Linux, and OS/400 installed
| bases.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/22/ibm_power_ssds/
Dell Mini 10 Netbook Available with Ubuntu and SSD Option
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| Dell's Mini 10 netbook hasn't been on the market very long, but it has proven
| to be a popular machine for the computer maker. Dell has announced that it
| will now be offering new options on the netbook including an SSD and Ubuntu
| OS.
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http://www.i4u.com/article24659.html
Which operating system is best for solid-state drives?
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| According to Far, Mac OS X runs "a little faster than Vista" with an SSD
| drive, but Linux is "always faster" than Vista or Mac OS X -- to the tune of
| 1% to 2% -- because like Windows 2000, "it never runs anything in the
| background."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9123140&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top
Linux Solid-State Drive Benchmarks
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| With the number of netbooks on the market continuing to
| increase each month and more of these mobile devices
| switching to solid-state drives for their reliability,
| extended battery life, and faster performance, SSDs are
| becoming quite common and finding themselves meeting many
| Linux hosts. How though does the real-world performance
| differ between hard disk drives and solid-state drives on
| Linux? We have run several tests atop Ubuntu on a Samsung
| netbook with a HDD and SSD. In addition, we have also
| looked at the encryption performance using both types of
| drives.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_ssd_performance&num=1
Related:
Should Filesystems Be Optimized for SSD’s?
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| As long as SSD manufacturers force us treat these devices as black boxes,
| there may be a certain amount of cargo cult science which may be forced upon
| us file system designers — or I guess I should say, in order to be more
| academically respectable, “we will be forced to rely more on empirical
| measurements leading to educated engineering estimations about what the SSD
| is doing inside the black box”. Heh.
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http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/22/should-filesystems-be-optimized-for-ssds/
Geek Sheet: A Tweaker’s Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs)
and Linux
http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9190
If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/22/sandisk_ssd_vista_beef/
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