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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, & Xubuntu Benchmarks @ Phoronix

Written by t-readyroc

Friday, 23 February 2007

Phoronix has posted a review of the three flavors of Ubuntu that's likely to start some flame wars somewhere. This is part one of a two-part article that will try to determine which desktop environment runs best on the Ubuntu framework.

"We have taken two systems -- one with dual Intel Clovertown processors and the other an AMD Sempron -- and tested out each of these distributions in some of our commonly used Linux benchmarks to see how the performance truly stacks up."

Four open-source RSS readers at PCMechanic

Written by t-readyroc

Friday, 23 February 2007

The PCMechanic guys take four open-source RSS readers & do a feature comparison to see which should take up some space on your desktop. They don't cover any of the readers for browsers, such as Sage for Firefox, or IE's native abilities.

"Some new browsers have this feature, but a dedicated application is still the best way to organize and easily work with feeds from dozens of sources. And due to RSS popularity, there are dozens of readers available on the Web."

geekE news: Reviews from the web edition

Written by treadyroc

Friday, 23 February 2007

Notebooks

HP dv9000z HD DVD @ DigitalTrends

PCs

PC Club Enpower Sabre Extreme 07 @ the [H]

Motherboards

ASRock 775XFire-eSATA2 @ Motherboards.org

Audio

CyberHome 6-Speaker Surround Sound Headphone System @ Bigbruin

ExtremA, a reference class-A DIY amplifier @ HardwareAnalysis