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Submission + - Ubuntu 9.04 is as slick as Win7, Mac OS X (zdnet.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23, 2009 @11:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: Opinion: Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October. Just like Microsoft has taken the blowtorch to Vista to produce the lightning-quick Windows 7, which so far runs well even on older hardware, Ubuntu has picked up its own game.

Submission + - Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet

Submitted by Incon on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @06:39AM

Incon writes: Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Akers has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types.

Comment Re:The Austrailian Constitution? (Score 1) 600

by Incon on Monday February 09, 2004 @02:35AM (#8223581) Attached to: Australia To Adopt U.S.-Style Copyright Laws

There is very little in the way of freedoms, but I do know one thing: it definitely violates "the vibe" of the constitution

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