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Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2

03/12/2008  IIII
Relevance: 7.55
The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it's three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7.
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Graphics board vendor touts faster Linux drivers

07/03/2008  IIIIII
Relevance: 6.70
AMD has released faster new ATI Catalyst drivers for Linux customers of its ATI FireGL professional graphics cards. The 8.49.7 Linux driver provides 33 percent faster OpenGL performance than the previous driver, claims the company.
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Looking for the next Net business

09/27/2007  III
Relevance: 6.01
The Internet most of us experience is not the World of Ends suggested by the end-to-end system design concepts around which the Net was originally architected and built. Instead we have something that is faster-than-dialup, and faster-than-it-used-to-be; but is not The Net. Instead it is the part of the Net that's left in a pipe that's optimized for television, for one-way few-to-many"content delivery" and for locking users into client roles, while servers labor somewhere else.
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Is OpenOffice.org Getting Faster?

05/28/2008  I
Relevance: 5.72
Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of individualperformance improvements, but there are also new features, some of which may slow things down. This thenatural balance in software development, but in the end, what is the net effect on performance from one version to the next? Is it realistic to expect new features and faster performance? ThisOpenOffice.org benchmark measures the speed of versions 1.1.5 through 3.0.
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Ubuntu CE 2.0 Screenshot Walkthrough

12/01/2006  IIIII
Relevance: 5.60
We are excited to announce the release of Ubuntu CE v2.0. Improvements have been made all around, such as faster system boot up times, faster GNOME start up times, improvements to the user interface, a shiny new optimized kernel, GNOME 2.16 and much more.
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Report: Measuring Linux and Open Source

06/25/2007  I
Relevance: 5.59
As Linux continues to move into the enterprise data center, its power and speed are often touted as being stronger and faster compared to other operating systems. But how much faster? And what numbers are used to determine its performance? One decades-old organization has already explored the paths of computer measurement, and is hoping to lend Linux the benefits of the trails it has already blazed.
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Linux vs. Windows Metrics -- Nothing Is Quite What It Seems To Be

05/02/2008  I
Relevance: 5.45
10 days ago the Linux Loop blog had a post titled"Linux Eee PC Far Faster Than Windows Version". I'm sure many Linux users nodded and had assumed as much.
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Faster, safer Internet with OpenDNS

01/31/2007  II
Relevance: 5.37
The domain name system (DNS) maps human-understandable Web site addresses into numeric IP addresses. Launched in July 2006, OpenDNS adds a few free services on top of the traditional DNS to block phishing Web sites and auto-correct common misspelled URLs. And thanks to some clever traffic routing and load-balancing technology, OpenDNS can also deliver Web pages faster.
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Make Linux: Harder - Better - Faster

09/30/2008  I
Relevance: 5.34
How many of you has never customized/tweaked your favorite linux distro since your first installation? I suspect very few, if any. One of the main appeal of Linux (and open source softwares) is the freedom of customization and the choice to do virtually anything you want. You are only limited by your imagination and understanding of the system. So today we will share some tips and information to make your linux system harder, better and faster.
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Linux jukebox app achieves first stable release

06/13/2008  I
Relevance: 5.32
The Banshee Project has achieved the first major, stable release of its eponymous music jukebox application. Banshee 1.0 features faster searching, browsing, and management functions, along with improved memory usage, faster start-up, and a more responsive interface better supporting large collections, project leaders say.
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