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Submission + - Firefox 3.5RC2 Windows vs Linux Performance (andrewmlawrence.com)

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on Monday June 22, 2009 @01:35PM

pizzutz writes: "Andy Lawrence has posted a javascript speed comparison for the recently released Firefox 3.5RC2 between Linux(Ubuntu 9.04) and Windows(XP SP3) using the SunSpider benchmark test. Firefox 3.5 will include the new Tracemonkey javascript engine. The Windows build edges out Linux by just under 15%, though the Linux build is still twice as fast as the current 3.0.11 version which ships with Jaunty."

Submission + - Students call space station with home-built radio (theglobeandmail.com)

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on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @03:34AM

Pizzutz writes: "Four Toronto college students have accomplished a technological feat that their teachers are calling a first. The Humber College seniors made contact with the International Space Station Monday with a radio system they designed and built themselves. School officials say that, to their knowledge, that's never been accomplished by students at the college level."

Submission + - Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds (softpedia.com)

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on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @10:50AM

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..."

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