PCLinuxOS is a Mandriva variant which works beautifully on PCs and is indispensable to me for use on my netbook. Mandriva itself is also great on netbooks. A primary example, that illustrates that Mandriva makes an excellent base to build other distros on. Mandriva seemed to produce solutions that were a breath of fresh air in comparison to the straight-thinking Ubuntu. No criticism of Ubuntu intended here. It's also a big favourite of mine. Remains to be seen though if PCLinuxOs can still produce the goods independently of Mandriva. OK, Mandriva is one of many fine Linux distros out there - but it had a certain something when it came to thinking out of the box. I for one am sorry to hear this sad news. I hope the valued development traditions will somehow continue as a new incarnation of of the distro. If the developers are willing, this ought not to be a problem.

Installing a Windows look-alike pack over the latest Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid is a great thing for Windows refugees who don't know or don't want to know anything about what goes on under the hood of the OS. Support requirements are way below that required for MS Windows. I haven't looked back myself since I installed Ubuntu Lucid 10.4 64-bit Gnome desktop enhanced with the latest Windows 7 look-alike pack from Gnome-look.org called Win2-7. I also have real Windows 7 Ultimate installed to dual boot my main PC. The dolled-up Ubuntu blows away the genuine Windows 7 in terms of general performance and graphics handling on a side-by-side comparison. If S. Ballmer ever gets a look at this he'll go ballistic. A forest-worth of trees are gonna get trashed. It's really quite hard to see cosmetic differences between the two OS's It's a real problem for MS. Gnome-Look.org might may well get to hear more about this at some stage from the Steve. It's just too good to ignore.

Well, yes - who exactly gave them any such right to suggest anything? Who do they speak for? - you? me?

The original idea of the open internet was to promote communication between peer academic institutions for the dissemination of research data.
All the other nodes simply plugged in to this network and it expanded from there.

It all makes me wonder if Google really even has the right to impose its own end-user Terms and Conditions on any user.
Terms and Conditions? Is this anything to to with egalitarian democracy? What gives Google the right to suggest any policy to the government? Who has given them, or anyone else for that matter, (corporate or political entity) - any such mandate?

Does this qualify for an xxx domain name? http://blog.esaba.com/projects/catphotos/catphotos.php?image=746/

One bull can serve 10,000 cows ;-O

Instead of big Linux e.g Ubuntu etc, try a smaller Linux such as Puppy, http://www.puppylinux.com/ Approximately 100MB and fast.

A drug resistant germ can produce a hula hoop shaped thingy called a plasmid.

For the purpose of this discussion, call it a floppy.

The drug resistant germ passes the code to deal with the antibiotic to its peers which become drug resistant.

The devil's advocate position is that it's all very well and good to hold to your principles, but they're unlikely to keep you from being dead.

The vikings in Greenland considered eating fish taboo. They died pure.

They misspelled his name. With his level of computer knowledge his name should be spelled Anthony Digitali.

The government could get tax revenue from this idea if they can manage to convert the bag contents to beer instead. Could fund the whole Medicare system

My usual routine:

1.) Install updates
2.) Add additional repositories
3.) Run stored custom list of additional applications through aptitude (startupmanager, putty, openssh, git, chromium, opera, ...)
4.) Repeat "1.)" in case there are some weird dependencies (happened to me more than once)
5.) Visit gnome-look.org to give the new install its own personality
6.) Apply UI preferences (Compiz productivity options, terminal window colors, ...)

Since most of that stuff can be scripted anyway the default theme is merely a placeholder until that procedure is done.
So why should I even worry about something I won't see again until I set up another machine?

Sorry, Canonical but if I wanted my system to look and/or behave like OSX I'd simply "hackintosh" it.
I prefer your distribution simply because I like how it's set up under the hood and because Google usually spits out helpful results if a problem with an application or driver has to be solved.

Depends on the music, personal taste, etcetera. I love Beethoven's 9, most Mozart, CPE Bach, Bach's organ stuff, Vivaldi, Grieg, and am trying others. Nonetheless, some musicians are just *bad* to me: all atmosphere and no music; it sounds like a theme for a movie in the non-musical almost sound-effects like sense (Stravinsky, Bartok, etc.). On the other hand, Philip Glass, who I sincerely expected to hate (minimalist just sounded horrible) I loved the second I heard. Delving down through what you do and don't like to find more stuff you do and expand your horizons takes effort.