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Booting up Ubuntu in five seconds flat on an SSD
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| Ryan Paul over at Ars Technica tried out the final alpha
| version of Ubuntu 9.1, which improves on boot performance
| significantly. Much like Microsoft's soon-to-be-released
| Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.1 comes with optimization for
| computers with solid state drives (SSD).
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http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/booting-ubuntu-five-seconds-flat-ssd/2009-09-22
LinuxCon: Shuttleworth's Three Methods to Improve FOSS Development
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| Cadence, quality, and design were the core themes of
| Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth's closing keynote talk
| at LinuxCon.
|
| Speaking before a combined session of LinuxCon and the co-
| located Linux Plumber's Conference, Shuttleworth drilled
| home the importance of these concepts in the Linux
| development ecosystem, particularly cadence.
|
| Shuttleworth has long maintained that if free and open
| source software projects can begin to sync their
| development cycles with each other, then both upstream and
| downstream developers (and, ultimately, users) will
| benefit. This is large part of the strategy behing
| Canonical's strict six-month release for the Ubuntu
| distribution and the 18-month Ubuntu Long Term Support
| (LTS) cycles.
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http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/168-brian-proffitt/79395-linuxcon-shuttleworths-three-methods-to-improve-foss-d
Recent:
Which operating system is best for SSDs?
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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
| percent to 2 percent - because like Windows 2000, "it never runs anything in
| the background."
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http://features.techworld.com/storage/108317/which-operating-system-is-best-for-ssds/
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 SSDâs?
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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 â or I guess I should say, in order to be more
| academically respectable, âwe will be forced to rely more on empirical
| measurements leading to educated engineering estimations about what the SSD
| is doing inside the black boxâ. Heh.
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http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/22/should-filesystems-be-optimized-for-ssds/
Geek Sheet: A Tweakerâs 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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