We must have even worse climate here in Poland as they seem to be repairing roads for last 20 years with little success...

Ok. They probably won't deliver me slick laptops...

Yeah, I know that. Running 9.04 now with experimental drivers because I couldn't stand:

- poor performance
- system freezes (sic!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware_in_Soviet_Bloc_countries#Bulgarian_computers

go learn about computing in Soviet block. I won't mention Polish "Odra" computer and it's top-of-the-art memory of that time.

I never been to Bulgaria (want to go there), but I guess it can be possible to buy some cheap Acer laptops with Linux there from_a_shelf in cheap computer stores.

hey, what's the crap about swallowing you sick bastard! ;)

It's more about getting "clean" laptop without any OS (or proprietary one) installed and hardware compatibility with free OSes.

I'd love to see some vendor shipping laptops "Tested with Ubuntu, Fedora, NetBSD and OpenSolaris".

From my experience (had 3 laptops with Linux pre-installed so far - 2 with Linpus and one with Xandros!), I always had to switch to something else than what came with laptop. With Acer laptops it was easy - hardware was fairly standard. Other thing was with early version of Eee PC, that had all sorts of problems with drivers for almost a year until I could install "stock" Debian on it.

If I even got a laptop from Dell with Ubuntu, I would:
- re-partition and encrypt hard drive
- upgrade to something more recent than 8.04

That means I don't need a laptop with Linux pre-installed, but one without Windows, with fairly standard hardware. I think most of you here would agree with me.

Yeah, realised that when I typed in. But left there ;)

No way. He hasn't played a Cylon so you're screwed!

What these stupid guys at Adobe think they are doing? Well, I refuse since now to embed any flash video on any site. Go to hell and burn there, bastards.

Eek. My girlfriend is a ioquake3 player and she is damn hot chick. Nothing strange about it these days. Not a troll attempt IMHO.

There should always be a dragon keeping an eye on your castle. Like in Krakow in Poland... wait, wash't he just eating virgins? huh

Yeah, unless it's Ubuntu which needs fixing. Slackware is being very conservative, and it's core system hasn't changed a lot in recent years - which is much different from Ubuntu or Fedora. Things like booting process, sound subsystem or package management are totally different now.

I loved slackware but got sick and tired of compiling everything myself... and switched to gentoo where ebuilds were. Then switched to OpenSuse... and finally I am Ubuntu user, quite happy one (not too but still).

This is a shame that firefox 3.5, at least on Ubuntu has tracemonkey turned off by default. I am developing really heavy web application right now (Dojo on client-side), and I was amazed how it's performance changed when turned tracemonkey on.

Now, just how can I explain my client to use recent FF or Chrome? ;)

There is that priest-radical in Poland, who is known as Father Rydzyk, and all young people hate him and his movement. So they decided support him by sending 0.01 PLN (about 0.003 USD) each. Lots of students did just that, each one paying 0.01 PLN.

The case was that Father Rydzyk's movement was having special deal with banks, that they were paying all fees for incoming money. So, for each 0.01 PLN paid in, they had to pay about 1 USD - now this where Swedish guys had the idea from!

This is finally going to be desktop Linux year then.