In relation to this ted talk from Clay Shirky http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html

Do you think it likely that one day you will be more famous for git (or a derivative of git) than for Linux ?

First S.U.S.E
--> Red Hat 3.x and 4.x (before the Red Hat/Fedora split)
--> Fedora (Core 1) up to core 6-7 or so
--> Ubuntu 4.10 up to 11.4
--> Debian

Today Debian and some CentOS.

(and some LFS, Mandrake and Gentoo testing in the early years)

's/curry/call center/g'

I for one welcome our new Mars Call Center overlords ;-)

What makes you so sure they won't be playing the role of the Americans ?

Their progress is seen as 'slow' and 'copying' by most Americans, but their 5 year and 10 year and 20 year plans are being steadily executed.

Their Shenzhou spacecraft has done spaceflights that resemble American Mercury and Gemini, but it actually has all capabilities of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Soyuz combined (and improved).

Sookie Stackhouse is by far the best vampire 'hunter' ;-)

...an all new macbook pro and it still lacks a DE9 serial port ? ;-)

There has been no support for printing in Samba4 ever...
Same goes for a forest trust. These two are stoppers for many companies to switch to Samba4, everything else works fine.

Indeed, left hand at 6:00, right hand on her legs.

There already is a place called "Little Britain" - that's what "Brittany" in France means.
It might mean that in English, but definitely not in France or in French!
Bretagne, as the French call it, refers to the place where "Les Bretons" live. There is no 'little' or anything similar in that word.

They are doing stuff, but it is very slow (especially compared to what the good old USSR did back in the 1950's and 1960's.... and don't even get me started with a comparison to NASA in the 1950's and 1960's) and their operational tempo is absolutely pathetic.

Sorry to burst the bubble, but it took Americans a couple of decades before they mastered fully automated docking. The Chinese accomplished this on their very first attempt.

Their progress seems to go very slow, but underneath it is an admirable long term plan (5 years plans that fit into ten year plans, that fit themselves into longer term plans!). I guess that's the advantage of having a dictatorship. They are not that far behind on what they announced back in 1999 (manned flight in 2002 (done in 2003), moon probe in 2007 (done in 2007), space station and docking around 2010 (done in 2011)...).
This summer they will man their first space station, twice. Next year Tiangong 2 will go up, by 2015 they will have 20 ton modules (tiangong 3) and improved launch power (CZ5).
Next year also the Chinese will land a rover on the Moon: first rover on the Moon since the Soviets in 1976, but more importantly it will be the only rover on the Moon.

Their Shenzhou spacecraft program might resemble the American Mercury or Gemini, but it includes all Apollo features as well. By 2020 they will have landed on the Moon, to stay a bit longer than a couple of days!

+1 insightful
the poll was never on the front page.

you're right about the next poll also, my first thopught was "ah PC vs Mac vs Linux" ;-)

(I had first vote, took a screenshot of it!)

Fixed that for you.

If I recall correctly, then the first American *automated* docking was in 1976. 14 years after the first American man in space.
Overall I get the impression China is working long term, steadily going forward, not racing to plant a flag, but building to stay.

I would do my best to stay healthy and hope for medicine and robotics to improve so any organ that fails can be replaced.
Then 100 years from now, in the year 2111 someone will come up with a way to get our lifespan up to 250.
Why die at all when we can continue to live in a robot-body that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from our current body ?