Analysis: Ubuntu 10.04 Keeping Pace, Or More, With Windows 7
The Ubuntu community released Alpha 3 of the next-generation Lucid Lynx version of its desktop OS, and it's becoming increasingly clear that Microsoft will have difficulty putting any daylight between Windows 7 and the free operating system.
Lucid Lynx is not even in beta yet, but already the signs are clear from its final Alpha version that the development community led by Canonical is outdoing itself. The OS, as we've previously noted, is closer than Windows 7 to the long-coveted "instant on" designation. After a breezy, 10-minute installation on a PC with an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 at 2.80GHz and 2 GB of RAM, the newest Lucid Lynx Alpha booted in 15.2 seconds. That's the same amount of time as the second Alpha, but the third version did add a number of features and much more driver support.
Windows 7 boots in 30 seconds on the same PC test bed.
But with this Alpha, it's about much more than speed.
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