Why Dell Should Upgrade Past Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

news · April 16, 2009

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Why Dell Should Upgrade Past Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "Earlier this week we looked at the Inspiron Mini 9, which was

Dell's inaugural Atom-powered netbook. The hardware to the device was

fine and it even shipped with Ubuntu Linux, albeit with a few

modifications. In that article though we said we would have Ubuntu

benchmarks coming from this 8.9" Intel device and today we have those

numbers to share. We are looking at the performance of Ubuntu 8.04.2

LTS, Ubuntu 8.10, and Ubuntu 9.04 from the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook.

Since Ubuntu 8.04.2, Intel's Atom performance has improved tremendously

and Dell should begin thinking about upgrading past the Long-Term

Support release."

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