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Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds 654

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 14 2009, @06:10PM
from the spurious-precision-is-2.6-times-better dept.

Pizzutz writes "Softpedia reports that Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds using the current daily build and the newly supported EXT4 file system. From the article: 'There are only two days left until the third Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) will be available (for testing), and... we couldn't resist the temptation to take the current daily build for a test drive, before our usual screenshot tour, and taste the "sweetness" of that evolutionary EXT4 Linux filesystem. Announced on Christmas Eve, the EXT4 filesystem is now declared stable and it is distributed with version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel and later. However, the good news is that the EXT4 filesystem was implemented in the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3 a couple of days ago and it will be available in the Ubuntu Installer, if you choose manual partitioning.' I guess it's finally time to reformat my /home partition..."

Comment: Re:OpenOffice.Org... (Score 2, Interesting) 473

by Bio on Sunday October 02 2005, @05:39AM (#13697492) Attached to: Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support

What I usually do in my role as webmaster when I receive a Word doc for presentation: Open it in OpenOffice, export as PDF and upload it to the website. The PDFs are very slim. And it's easy.

I bet the PDFs written with MS Office will be very bloated (like the HTML format is).

Journal: Photos 1

Journal by Bio on Wednesday December 22 2004, @05:16AM

Well, I'm back home, and I have made my photos available here:

http://www.bios.ch/photos/stockholm2004/

Greetings to all who have followed this journal, that will be finished with this entry.

Comment: Re:So? (Score 1) 360

by Flubu! on Tuesday December 21 2004, @12:40PM (#11148345) Attached to: Study Links Cell Phones to DNA Damage

mmmmm, ya, no.

If you were to apply that same reasoning to, oh, say, nicotine, which also causes random DNA breaks and errors in replication, then your argument would say that tobacco isn't in fact linked to lung cancer.

Journal: Lucia 2

Journal by Bio on Thursday December 16 2004, @11:43AM

Well I lost my Lucia entry because I'm sitting on a really stupid public internet terminal. Please check goolge about Lucia :-(.

I was attending a really nice Lucia concert at Engelbrektkyrka.

My Swedish course is almost finished. Tomorrow will be the last day, and that will be the day when I leave Sweden. Monday evening I will be back home.

That's it for the moment. To hell with this terminal!

Journal: Kiruna, Icehotel 0

Journal by Bio on Monday December 13 2004, @04:26PM

I had a really great weekend in Kiruna!

When the night train arrived at 11am in Kiruna, I decided to stay in the train and make the detour to Absiko and Björkliden and come back with the next train. I think it's one of the most beautiful railway lines on the shore of Torneträsk lake and it was worth the additional 3 hours on the train.

Journal: Kiruna 0

Journal by Bio on Wednesday December 08 2004, @11:45AM

Some info about Kiruna:

http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?queryArt5665=kiruna&searchDepartmentArt5665=332&param0Art5665=xxxkeyword_articletypexweather&d=332&a=5665

The weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday is good! -4/-13 and -8/-12 degrees C.

Journal: Lucia / Kaknäs Tornet 0

Journal by Bio on Monday December 06 2004, @12:40PM

Long time since my last entry. The weather was really bad the last week. About 5-7 degrees C, the snow hast mostly melted away. Furthermore the sun didn't show up, it was all grey.

Today for the first time we had sunny weather again and I used the opportunity to go up Kaknäs tower, the tallest building in Skandinavia (about 150 m, that's not a lot, but the view from up there is great). I did my Swedish homework there and stayed until the sun set at 14.50h.

Journal: Training in Stockholm 0

Journal by Bio on Thursday December 02 2004, @09:57AM

This time I found the clubstuga of Järla IF. Most of them did the training with the skis, since the slope is just beside the cottage and the conditions were still good. But I ran with three young orienteers through Nacka and Södermalm, mostly through the city, since in the forest it would have been dark :-). We ran for almost an hour and the pace was quite high.

Journal: Moved 0

Journal by Bio on Tuesday November 30 2004, @06:18AM

I moved again, to Stuvsta (belongs to Huddinge) which is about 15 min from Stockholm Central with the Pendeltåg. I'll stay there for the next two weeks. I have a one room appartment with a small kitchen. A family I know from Switzerland lives very close and it's through them that I got there.

Besides that, planning for a weekend trip to Kiruna is going on, more information follows.