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Ubuntu Developer Summit 12.10 Recap

The weeklong Ubuntu Developer Summit for the Ubuntu 12.10 “Quantal Quetzal” wrapped up on Friday in Oakland, California. There was a lot of interesting notes shared on Phoronix from the UDS-Q event, so here’s a summary of the most prominent happenings …

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Ubuntu Linux 12.04: Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare?

Well there’s a new kid in town here in the Linux blogosphere, and it’s already caused quite a stir. It’s one of the Ubuntu clan, as its nickname makes clear, but that’s as far as the foolin’ goes. With five years of support and a scaly, tough hide, thi…

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Azul Launches Zing 5.2 JVM With Support for Ubuntu Linux

Azul Systems announced that its Zing 5.2 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) now features support for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. – Azul Systems, a provider of Java runtime scalability solutions, announced today that it has added support for the Ubuntu Linux…

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Oracle v. Google: The Trial and the Errors

With all the fabulous and exciting technologies to talk about here in the world of FOSS — the shiny, brand-spankin’-new Ubuntu Linux 12.04, to name just one — it always seems a crying shame to have to waste any breath at all discussing lawsuits. Disc…

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Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge Linux Performance

Intel is finally announcing the first Ivy Bridge processors this morning. I have been extensively testing out the Intel Core i7 3770K, the current high-end Ivy Bridge processor, for the past few weeks under Ubuntu Linux. I have been extremely please…

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HP to Certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server on Select ProLiant Systems

Canonical has announced that HP will certify the next server edition release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, 12.04 LTS, for its ProLiant systems and provide hardware warranty support…

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" On Linux

After some delays in getting the hardware, we finally have our extensive review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" graphics card with testing and benchmark results under Ubuntu Linux. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 is one mighty performer …

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Ubuntu 12.04 Is A Mixed Power Story

Similar to the mixed boot performance results for Ubuntu 12.04, the power consumption results are also mixed. For some hardware, Ubuntu 12.04 is the most power efficient Ubuntu Linux release in recent history while for some other hardware the Precis…

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NVIDIA Tegra 3 Makes For Fast Ubuntu On ARM

Here are the first set of Phoronix.com benchmarks of the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3. Needless to say, four Cortex-A9s combined with NVIDIA graphics leads to a fairly fast ARMv7 experience when running Ubuntu Linux…

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Ubuntu For Android Smartphones Coming For MWC

Canonical is preparing to show off Ubuntu for Android at Mobile World Congress next week. The Linux OS package will dock to a desktop and sync with the Android phones contacts and services. – Linux software distributor Canonical Feb. 21 introduced a…

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