Last week I had a few spare hours so I did a wireless upgrade from Karmic Koala, to

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Maverick Meerkat and then to Natty Narwhal. In all about three hours worth of effort. The Narwhal desktop is a dream, file and utility searches a snap, the OS rocks. Now for the good part, I just timed from POST to login screen, 41 seconds. Not bad for open source software that is freely downloadable.

The best part, shutdown in 3 or 4 seconds and that is by MS standards a bonafide miracle. Hats of to all the developers of the Linux OS, may they continue to amaze and impress me and millions of others.

Once again, from this:


To this:


To this in just a few hours over a WIRELESS connection, no CD necessary.

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1. Glad to hear Narwhal is a good step up

...I'm using Meerkat, and haven't gotten around to the upgrade yet - maybe I'll run it tomorrow.

And I agree - the Linux OS and the apps that go with it have gotten so good and so easy, I find it hard to imagine more people don't switch from the slow, cranky and virus-addled Windows stuff.

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3. Yup, MS seems to have one thing in mind today, stopping Unix from coming into its

own in the public domain. The dotnet thingy which I have yet to understand seems to have protected them for a time.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Wonder what use of a SSD solid state drive would do to those times, if anything.

I just timed this MacBook Air with SSD from cold start to open and connected browser window at about 16 seconds.

I have to think the OS is the slowpoke part in the package.