In the context of the article ("No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge ..."), 'child' refers to a minor.

Two mildly popular distros releasing their betas is not news. An actual release might be news (and that's debatable), but a beta release? Bah.

And just a reminder that /. didn't cover the various betas of Ubuntu either. Or any other popular Linux distros, for that matter.

Also, GNOME 3.2 has been in the stable Arch Linux repos since almost the day it came out.

You don't seem to realise that just because you don't store sensitive information on your hard-drive, doesn't mean that other people don't. Imagine some punk finding an old hard-drive with the XYZ-expensive-product source or credit/debit card info on it in the trash.

Also, he said, "I could use a degausser, but they are prohibitively expensive." (Quick Google search reveals $500 plus international shipping if you don't line in America.)

Virgin Media is currently rolling out its 100Mb/s internet.

Just FYI.

I find this hard to believe. Firefox is installed by default on many of the most popular Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.). When you consider the millions of Linux users using these distros (yes, I can back that up with reliable sources - can you say the same?), it's not hard to imagine that the number of Firefox users on Linux extends well over a million (maybe millions).

Bear in mind that Firefox is usually installed via a package manager, so the number of Linux downloads (if any) from the Firefox website are not to be relied upon as a true indication of the amount of Linux users using Firefox. In addition, there are also many of us who prefer to compile from source, as we are then free to modify and tinker, or just study out of academic curiosity.

Besides, although I'm not familiar with the Firefox codebase, I'm pretty sure that there is no "Windows version", and it's just recompiled for each operating system. Development "of FF for Linux" is, I think, not an issue.

Just my 2c.