I doubt anyone on Slashdot believes any platform is invulnerable to malware. But if the shoe fits wear it- MS-Windows is perhaps more than a thousand times more prone to malware than Linux in the real world.

>"Are these the Germans that cut over to Linux a few years ago, saving a 'ton' of money?"

No, these are the Germans that did not and are now still suffering with tons of malware...

>"Mozilla has released a statement saying users like the integration"

I don't know any such users. In fact, most people I know agree that Mozilla needs to stop this trend of adding things to Firefox; it goes completely contrary to the Firefox mission (or what I thought it used to be, anyway)- to be small, open, cross-platform, and fast.

So please remove it. And then remove Hello. In fact, remove the developer stuff too (which 99.999% of users never use). Please use Addons/Extensions for these things. And while you are at it- LISTEN TO YOUR USER BASE who want full control over the UI options (Should I mention tabs-on-bottom? Or status panel? Or traditional file menus?). Stop trying to be Chrome!!!

Exactly.

>"It's the beginning of an amazing moment for our industry"

More like additional fuel to end the "owning" of anything. Streaming is great when you are connected, don't mind someone watching what you are doing, and don't care that you can be fed things you don't want.

Look at the reaction to even the CONCEPT of Netflix having commercials...

>"You gonna pass a law against sex?????????"

No, of course not. The person would need to agree to be surgically sterilized after having the allotment of children (presumably 0 or 1).

>"You can't tell people not to reproduce "

Actually, yes you can. You can make it a requirement to have only X children or less if you want age extension... make it a choice. It is already illogical for people to think they have the "right" to make as many children as they want.

Exactly how many dozens of billions of people does this planet need?

>"It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Linux is dying"

Let me guess, you are somehow related to Microsoft...

Your "facts" are very wrong by the way.... Linux is on many orders of magnitude more than 1% of servers.

Go away, anonymous coward...

>"First time I ever hear of Mageia. It seems like a minor project in comparison to Mandriva..."

Not really. Most of the Mandriva user base, volunteer base, and contributors moved over to Mageia already, which accelerated the death of Mandriva. And I expect even more now.

I believe it has all the same number of packages and features of Mandriva, just completely community driven instead of by a [small] corporation. It is almost 4 years old now. The now defunct Mandriva even started using the Mageia distribution as a technical platform for their Business Server product in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

>"Strong? That's an understatement considering we're looking at +-1000 hits per day on average... compared to the 10s of thousand hits for Ubuntu"

Really? Because that is not what distrowatch shows. For last 6 months it has it listed as the 8th most watched distro and with 970 hits per day compared to Ubuntu's 1738 hits per day which is not even double.

In the last 12 months, Mageia is ranked 6th. And for the previous 12 months, Mageia was ranked 4th, with hits approaching Ubuntu. Mageia has longer release cycles, so when Mageia 5 hits, watch the current rank start to climb again.

Not that distrowatch is some type of scientific survey or anything, but it is something other than just wild rantings of an "anonymous coward".

I made the move to Mageia years ago and never looked back. Still happy. Since it is not a business, it should theoretically not go under. Retains all the spirit and functionality of Mandrake/Mandriva but is completely community driven. It is a great desktop distro.

Sounds like a suitable time to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

>" I wonder what other Slashdotters think, looking back on Win 3?"

I was using Interactive Unix and SunOS Unix.

I would very much support a per-mile tax on all vehicles as long as it doesn't require tracking my vehicle in ANY way. If they can just take a meter reading during the annual state vehicle inspection, that will work nicely.

Otherwise, this is opening the door for the government to put mandated tracking devices in cars... and I find that totally unacceptable.

>"But since there's no "earth" at the north pole, the correct answer is obviously the south pole."

Except it can't be, because instruction #1 is to first walk 1 mile south. You can't walk south from the south pole. EVERYWHERE is north :)

So the answer is the north pole.

I wish I could mod you up, but I just used all 5 on another thread.

Raising minimum wages rarely helps anyone in the long run. The market will adjust exactly like you described.

And for those who don't understand the concepts, try a mental exercise of raising the minimum wage to perhaps $50/hr or $100/hr and think about that for a while.