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Ask Linux.com: document wrangling, lighter distros, and Boot Loops IIOpen in New Window
[In memory of Don LaFontaine, please read the following paragraph in as gravelly a voice as you can muster - ed.] In a world where anyone can ask, but few can respond ... they compress standard-out o read more »
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How important is boot performance?Open in New Window
According to the Engineering Windows 7 blog, Windows 7 has a team dedicated to focusing on startup performance. But how important is startup performance? read more »
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News to know: Oracle’s Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot timesOpen in New Window
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle’s Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?Adrian Kings read more »
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Microsoft Scores Facebook Search Deal And May Get A Little Live.com Branding To BootOpen in New Window
Microsoft SVP Satya Nadella has announced that the company has expanded its deal with Facebook to integrate Microsoft’s Live Search into the social network. There are few details at this point read more »
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10 ways to make Linux boot fasterOpen in New Window
On those infrequent occasions when you need to reboot Linux, you may find that the process takes longer than you’d like. Jack Wallen shares a number of tricks you can use to reduce boot times. read more »
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Researchers release 'cold boot' attack utilitiesOpen in New Window
A way around disk encryptionThe security researcher who demonstrated the 'cold boot' attack has released the source code for the hack. The attack, first demonstrated in February, uses a set of utilit read more »
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Build your own ultimate boot discOpen in New Window
You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable read more »
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Miniature OSes let you perform tasks without booting your PC.Open in New Window
Phoenix Technologies is working on a new mini-OS called HyperSpace that will load in four seconds while the rest of your larger OS in continuing to load in the background (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac OS read more »
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