In just having very limited time yesterday before back to traveling, I fired up the Debian Jessie Alpha 1 installer on a ASUS Zenbook Prime (UX32VD) ultrabook with Intel Core i7 "Ivy Bridge" processor. With Debian 8.0 currently having the Linux 3.13 kernel, this Intel ultrabook should be in good enough shape for this in-development Debian GNU/Linux release considering it's last year's hardware. In April when I'm back in the office I will be running some fresh Debian "Jessie" benchmarks, including of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Those after Debian benchmarks today can view the recent Debian Wheezy, Jessie, and Sid benchmarks from earlier in March.

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