In case you didn't notice, Waze IS Google since year and a half.

Most people don't care about what happens in some distant offshore country like USA.

Are you proud now, sick haters?

Don't worry, similar driver modification was proposed for inclusion – https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/... . But Linux maintainers didn't took it. Instead, original driver was adjusted to work with FTDIs ”bricked” by Windows driver: http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&...

Linux is not fun anymore.

Fedora isn't. It just some guy choosen to announce his project on fedora-devel mailing list.

Ubuntu changing quickly? In what universe? I left Ubuntu for Fedora because I was fed up with living in the past. Debian's roots in Ubuntu show at every step, most software is ancient.

This also applies to libraries too. For example, anyone know what 'liborc', 'libnettle', 'libenchant', 'libmagic' or 'libcanberra' are without looking it up? I just picked these at random from /usr/lib. There are plenty more.

I knew the purpose of 4 out of 5 of those libraries. But I'm the distro developer. Ordinary user has no business in knowing what library does what.

There's a Chromium extension replacing all occurences of ”in the cloud” by ”in my butt”. Conveys the same message.

Since when mechanical drives degrade during writes? Isn't that a SSD 's illness?
And 55TB / year for desktop drive sounds ridiculously low.

Old news, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

How do you find systemd/linux? Systemd's success could decrease relevance of Hurd, as systemd is Linux only.

NSA certainly bugs ethernet sockets – see http://images.dailytech.com/ni... .
The amount of destruction on motherboard teaches us a thing: GCHQ destroyed elements they KNOW could be used for storing data/snooping. So we say ”morons”, but they actually are ahead of us in spying. And they expect other intelligences to have similar capacities as NSA/GCHQ.

Dell also made the news by buying out the whole capacity of some polish startup: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/...

Linus is reasonable guy. He's sometimes wrong, but can be convinced with technical arguments. The "don't-trust-RDRAND" change was included in Linux a year and a half ago: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c2557a303ab6712bb6e09447df828c557c710ac9