Fedora's way too experimental compared to Mandriva. There's no reason for MDV to merge with Fedora as Mandriva has always been a lot more stable and conservative as compared to Fedora. What this fork needs is to bring something new to the table like sharpening their desktop focus by bringing in an attention to detail that was lacking earlier, longer support lifecycles (unlikely but is needed), bringing on board the excellent (but unknown) PLF repositories...officially etc. They're working on all of this...and many more. This fork needs to survive...

Nothing's stopping Ubuntu from taking the MCC code and using it for Ubuntu.

Mandriva has (surprisingly) a very very polished GNOME distro...considering that they really do not have (had) enough manpower for GNOME packages as they do for KDE.

The same difference its between good (Mandriva) and bad (Kubuntu).

Mandriva as a distro is pretty much dead. Mageia lives on as the "new Mandriva". It will end up being a replacement and is not "just another distro"

That guy is Miguel De Icaza.

+1, I find GNOME to be highly configurable as well- more or less the same as that for KDE. Besides, GNOME has a better collection of theme engines (Murrine, Aurora, Nodoka) as compared to the KDE ones. When I say better, they're lot more polished and professional looking compared to anything out there.

I gave up trying to use KDE 4 from 4.4.x onwards. Its a huge pile of mess- especially the forced bundling of Nepomuk and Akonadi. Akonadi turned KDEPIM (a better PIM than Evolution) a big turd with countless memory/CPU hogging daemons flying all over the place. I saw a very sharp increase in CPU & memory usage because of Akonadi from KDE 4.4 onwards. And yes, plasma crashes...still, this is on the supposedly great KDE distros like Opensuse and Mandriva, not Kubuntu. A PIM is very important for me as I use Linux (exclusively) at work. I moved on to GNOME, and I really like it. I'll probably never return back to KDE.

You get NONE of this with a debit card. The only reason a debit card is preferable is if you don't have the self control to spend an amount you can pay off every month

Or if you don't want to pay a fee to have a credit card.
Or if you don't like the terms and conditions.
Or if you care AT ALL about your privacy, and don't want every purchase you ever made in the database of the big three, free for ANYBODY to look up.
Or if you want to ensure that any lucky identity thieves can't do anything to ruin your non-existent credit rating...
Or...

I'm pretty sure Palin believes the sky is a carpet painted by God. Seriously ... space station? How will they make it stay up there, nail it to the carpet?

Yeah.... another garbage tabloid fantasy story dreamed up by wankers looking to make sales.

Better than Amanda Huggenkiss.

Well that about explains goatse.

Oy. I stopped reading Roughly Drafted a while ago. His takes on the history of computing are interesting and informative, but he is the only person whom I actually think of as an Apple fanboy. I hate the term, personally, because it's intellectually dishonest. But I think Daniel Eran Dilger really would defend Apple if they decided to kill of the app store entirely and stop allowing any third-party apps on the iPhone. (Not to mention his continual insults directed at people who aren't progressives.) So no, I didn't go read. But I do suspect that the gist as you reported it is correct: Adobe is terrified and spewing propaganda in desperation. That said, they are terrified for good reason: if Apple succeeds in killing Flash, much of Adobe's revenue stream is gone.