Fosdem has over 550 talks, and is completely run by volunteers. It will take some time, but will most likely end up on http://video.fosdem.org/2015.

Sure they have. Go back to the Red Hat Linux days, the desktop was the main reason why they got into the business to begin with. It failed miserably though and that's when they switched to the enterprise market.

There have been desktop version of RHEL going back to the first version. They actually have two of them, Desktop and Workstation where Workstation is intended for software development while Desktop is meant for regular desktops.

If there's something Ubuntu is missing it's focus. They are doing desktop, mobile, tablet and server. Ubuntu Server is extremely popular in the server market, I would guess that's probably their biggest user base.

Canonical only supports packages which are in main, and most of the alternatives to Unity including Gnome is in universe. You may and often will miss out on important security updates if you use them. I see tons of people install Ubuntu's LTS releases thinking that they can install just about any package and it will be supported for five years, but in reality only a small subset of packages are supported that long and the majority are not supported at all.

You should read the release notes for any RHEL minor release. They do all kind of crazy stuff in their enterprise kernel. The entire KVM virtual machine layer for example, that came in with RHEL 5.2, a minor update that you got automatically. They also break stuff occasionally, but I've not had that happen very often.

You know there are reasons why Jessie is still in testing and has not been released yet? If you want something that works you should use the stable version, which is currently Wheezy.

Technically he was @-mentioned (or whatever it's called nowdays), got a notification from the GitHub thread in his email and responded to it from his email. He did not write a comment on GitHub. GitHub took his reply and posted it automatically.

They have outsourced parts of their business to companies in China, but that does not make them a Chinese company.

The solution is not that Apple should take iMessage to every platform out there, but that we start using open protocols instead like XMPP.

Actually he/she is right. OS X does support running 64 bit binaries on a 32-bit kernel. OS X didn't even have a 64 bit kernel until 10.6 and it wasn't until 10.7 when OS X started to boot into the 64 bit kernel by default, but you could still run 64 bit programs just fine back to 10.2 just as long as you had a 64 bit CPU.

I guess you missed his/her point as well. With Windows you got free updates up until July this year. With Linux you would have had to finance that yourself. Installing Linux in 2003 and paying someone to make updates for you would most likely not have been cheaper.

Yep, absolutely. You're screwed once MS stops their support. In their defense though, it is quite good that they provided updates for 12 years.

20 pages are barely enough to even introduce ZFS. Another 200 page book is more reasonable.

Yep, that's why the Roslyn compiler is so interesting.

On Debian 7:

https://packages.debian.org/je...

Also, the new Microsoft .NET compiler (Roslyn) is open source.