[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“From our testing of the development releases, it is
most certainly worth the upgrade, especially when compared to
Ubuntu 9.04 with its buggy Intel driver stack that caused many
problems for Atom netbook users. Ubuntu 9.10 brings many usability
improvements to the Linux desktop, various new packages, and the
overall system performance has improved too. We have ran a set of
benchmarks on both a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and Samsung NC10 under
Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 to illustrate the performance gains along with
a few regressions.“The Intel Atom N270 CPU with an Intel Mobile 945GME Chipset
with integrated Intel graphics powers both the Dell Mini 9 and
Samsung NC10. The Inspiron Mini 9 though was loaded up with 1GB of
RAM and an 8GB STEC PATA SSD while the NC10 ran with 2GB of RAM and
a 32GB OCZ Core Series SSD. Clean installations of Ubuntu 9.04
“Jaunty Jackalope” and Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” were done to both
of these netbooks, which were then left to run with their stock
settings, including the use of Compiz.”