Chromebooks are getting apps that can be used offline, packaged apps. They are already in beta and are due out probably at I/O.

I live hidden in Slashdot's server room so my latency is awesome. Also, it's hot in here.

Wayland is Linux specific because...

One of the things that went wrong with X was that we tried to pull too much of the OS into X so that we could run on every old platform out there. Or to put it more bluntly, bending over backwards for fringe platforms
He seems to forget that Linux was once a "fringe platform". Sigh.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/interview/kristian-hogsberg

By putting an ISBN on your work, it is available in every wholesalers and retailer's database. Your book can be ordered anywhere by anyone. Amazon's identifier is for Amazon only.

Authors don't have to pay that much for an ISBN when they self publish. Lulu.com for instance charges $40 for a "global distribution package" which includes an ISBN.

a hardware-accelerated console

Why?

I live in the next over from where they print the paper used on $1 bills. $1 bills are by far the most common demonination and it's loss would be economic disaster for the region. There is just no way to absorb all the workers who'd lose their jobs if Crane (who makes the paper) loses that amount of business from the government. On the top of that no Senator from Massachusetts would ever support it and a majority of the our Representatives wouldn't either.

I agree with the idea of dropping the dollar bill but it it would be a politcal and economic disaster for Massachusetts, thus won't happen for a long time, if ever.

Yes and no. Bands like Pink Floyd stopped officially releasing singles but the record companies carried on packing tracks as singles, because they could and helped the record sell. After the sixties the next official single release was "Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two" in 1979. Led Zepplin never released a single, the record company did that all on their own.

You way over thinking this. And yes the whole "nerds don't know about pussy" is kind of old.

This party has been cancelled.

Looks like the founder of Chakra Linux moved to this project.

They are slow, that's why. Look for the announcement here when it comes: http://blog.opengroup.org/

I have no idea. Someone had CDE working with xcompmgr a few weeks ago.

Patches encouraged! Join us on #cde on Freenode. FreeBSD is our biggest request and the one we have fewest developers for (exactly one at the moment).

There is experimental support for more modern font rendering here: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FontsWithXFT/