Linux Blog September Archive

Linux Vs Vista...Again?!

By Website Introductions at 09/23/08 12:32

It's the traditional war of open source versus proprietary software reaching a whole new level. This time, it is the battle between the infamous Windows Vista and the ever-popular-among-the-geeks Linux operating systems.

Who shall win? The free and cheap, or the safe but pricey? We will let you and the members of this forum decide! Just remember to defend your points and avoid bashing!

Link: Linux.com :: Linux vs Vista

Vista, XP, and Linux: The OS Tales

The funny thing about Windows Vista is that its competitors are not only Windows's traditional competitors, Mac's OS X and Linux, but also its brother, Windows XP.

Windows have been pushing people for a long time already to go and "upgrade" to Windows Vista, but a lot of XP users just won't budge. Now XP is in doom because computer manufacturers have already halted tying in their machines with Windows XP.

So what is left for XP? Battle out Linux for cheap laptop supremacy.

Link: Windows XP vs. Vista vs. Linux | Defensive Computing - CNET News

Ubuntu Frequency Scaling

You can see the speed of your CPU conveniently if you would use a CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor on pc running under Ubuntu OS. You can execute commands like $ cpufreq-selector -f 1300000 and will set you systems frequency to 1.3 GHz.

And also your processor should support the changing of frequencies and if does not support it would only show the current CPU frequency in the scaling monitor.

Link: Enabling CPU Frequency Scaling « Ubuntu Blog