Canonical expressed their plans to achieve a ten-second boot time in June of last year for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with their reference system being a Dell Mini 9 netbook. In February, we last checked on Ubuntu's boot performance and found it close, but not quite there yet, but did they end up hitting this goal for the final release of the Lucid Lynx?

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Indie game developer Hemisphere games have just released a Linux version of their DRM free game Osmos complete with demo. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.

Plenty of utilities can recover deleted files, but what if you can't boot your computer, or the whole drive has been formatted? Here's how to dig deep and recover the most elusive deleted files, or even whole partitions.

Full-featured desktop Linux distributions like PCLinuxOS and Linux Mint are quite useful, but there are times when a smaller and lighter distro can also be desirable.

For those that have been burning CD's for years to install linux, here's an alternative that will save time and money. Pendrives/thumbdrives/jumpdrives/flashdrives, or whatever you want to call them are an ideal way to install and run linux. They are now very cheap and plentiful everywhere you look.

In the netbook edition for 10.10, we're going to have a single menu bar for all applications, in the panel.

A commenter just wondered if my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid system's increasing use of swap was due to the known memory leak in X on the soon-to-be-released distro. Could be. After 5 hours 30 minutes of uptime, htop shows 9 MB of swap is being used - or at any rate "reserved." Remember, I have 1 GB of RAM on this Intel video-equipped laptop.