Agreed! These old cars are lighter and get great gas mileage. I have a 1992 Honda Civic VX. I paid an extra $1000 for a better gas sipping engine and that extra $1000 paid for itself many times over in great gas mileage. Great ROI! Today I get in the low 50s mpg during the summer and in the mid to upper 40s mpg during the winter.

Microsoft has language in its agreement that excludes GPL.

What brought me to Chips and Dips (early name of Slashdot) was the great Linux "Don't Fear the Penguins" T-Shirt that you made. I still have mine. There is now a lot of history connected with that T-Shirt. I wore it on my first date with my future wife. Thanks for making Slashdot and making it great.

You need to look no farther than the winner of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize (mainstream class). They decided that light weight and aerodynamics was key. It had meet some tough standards.

The goal: a car with mileage greater than 100 MPGe. The requirements: 4 passengers, 4 wheels, range exceeding 200 miles, 0-60 in less than 15 seconds, meeting Consumers Union dynamic safety standards and Tier 2 Bin 8 emissions.

Good questions! It seems to me that the ideas of exogenesis and panspermia which have been discounted (in my reading) may be more of a possibility with the new evidence than previously thought. The standard theories of the origin of life may need some revision. I can understand why scientists want to keep all of the theory on earth as opposed to pushing it off earth. It is easier find evidence and prevents concept of the something unknown happened out there. But right now there is a whole lot of unknowns and it may not be a tractable problem in the scientific framework.

There is an opportunity for a business to step up and provide long term enterprise support for FireFox 4.0. Backporting the security updates is possible.

Version numbers don't matter any more. This is really not a major release. It is an incremental upgrade, just like Chrome and just like the Linux kernel. It is a new way of developing software that has been happening for a while now.

Does a Linux kiosk OS count? How about Webconverger? It is a Debian derivative kiosk that uses Firefox.

If they keep only the two latest versions and drop the third, does that mean support for Firefox 4 will be dropped when Firefox 6 comes out? Firefox 6 is planned to come out in the Fall. There is a downside to the rapid schedule.

The problem is at the last mile. Lots of fiber was laid, but none of that dark fiber can connect to the homes and businesses that need it.

Jolicloud, a competitor to Google OS, has an app at the Chrome Web Store. Jollicloud decided to integrate its platform inside the Chrome browser. You can use Jolicloud services instead for Google's. Though definitely restrictive, Google is not locking you into its services.

Red Hat is very conservative with its packages. Minor updates come roughly every 6 months and it is then that they update packages if they decide to do so. However third party repositories will have newer versions of programs/packages and other programs that are not included in RHEL 6 by Red Hat. Naturally those packages will not be supported by Red Hat.

If you compare features, Plone easily wins.