This Week In Linux #8: Ubuntu MegaShow! iPhone Sync to Ubuntu 10.04, Music Store, Dell Fail
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I can’t really condemn Dell. Perhaps I’m mistaken but no one really buys desktop computers anymore outside of the business world.
I’m sort of split in my opinion here… generally the people who would be buying desktops aren’t the ones who would buy a Dell desktop, or an Ubuntu desktop. They’d either build it themselves or buy a Win PC and reinstall (because of the price difference).
Either way it looks like a step backward from the outside.
hoping that ubuntu 10.04 will be awesome! *crosses fingers*
The fast booting news could be on systems with solid state drives. Not sure though. A faster boot time would be awesome.
that’s actually a really good point. I’ve definitely not bothered to invest in SSD’s yet, but with the performance out of some of them, I could see Ubuntu going to the 15 second mark.
I’ve bought myself a corsair extreme x32 about 2 weeks ago, it totally shits over my 15000rpm u320 scsi drives (which are in raid 0). Any good ssd is a worthy investment, especially when it’s running your os
As for loading time I was gob smacked when there was no ubuntu symbol, one flick of the start up ubuntu bar then the desktop (there’s your 15 secs from grub)! Not bad for a 3yr old computer. Crazy fast
TradieTrev, sounds pretty cool. Have you tried any other OSes on it to see if it’s the SSD or the way Ubuntu deals with the SSD?
Only tried linux based, the other I’ve tried on it was OpenSuse (with ext4)… same
results.
I’ve read (correct me if i’m wrong) that the ext3 and ntfs partitions {under xp anyway} can cause damage to the SSD from the excessive write / rewrites. Take the terms loosly, this is my own speculation. Pretty sure this new controller used in this drive is much better from previous SSDs
Would love to try windows 7 on it, I’m really impressed with the improvements on SATA drives.
Cheers
an added note, Windows 7 is meant to support SSDs out of the box!
Looking forward to the price drop, and when magnetic platter drives no longer exist
Got a really old laptop (cost me about $180 incl taxes when it was new), it got some of the first SSD disks (32G) and I boot Archlinux in less than 20 seconds. That’s a 1.2Ghz CPU and 1G RAM.
Not sure how fast windows boots on it, but I’ve got friends with newer SSD-based laptops who get amazed at my little puppy. In particular when I show off compiz with full glitzyness, fully fluid on the built-in intel video chipset.
Keep up the good work!