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Ubuntu's Karmic Koala opens its eyes (The Register)

[Posted October 5, 2009 by ris]

The Register has a review of Ubuntu Karmic beta. "Once I got the 9.10 beta installed on my trusty Toshiba, I grabbed a stopwatch (okay, an iPhone stopwatch) and hit the power button. After restarting about a dozen times I found that the average startup time was 26 seconds, with the Xorg starting around the 15 second mark. That's only one second off Ubuntu's goal for Karmic Koala and a significant improvement over previous releases."

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