Correction, they're gonna use it for deporting illegal aliens.

Believe me, this all makes perfect sense in Virginia. I live here, I should know.

Hopefully they find a use for the spaceport before they decide to use it for deporting illegal immigrants.

Yeah, usb wireless adapters can be a pain. I'm luck enough to have a computer store nearby that has an Ubuntu setup inside, and they don't mind hooking it up for you to see if it'll work. Unfortunately though, I realize most areas don't have anyone like that.

Having the separate directories still comes in handy when rescuing systems. Something Fedora is missing here is that it's not the separate directories that confuse people, it's the abbreviations.

In all honesty, users this new don't need to be messing around with the system at such a low level, Windows actively discourages it as well. The problem is that there is still not enough mature applications available for new users. They are not always satisfied with what comes prepackaged, so they venture out on the web. Source tarballs, random executable no automated installation, and distro specific software is just plain intimidating.

They could change the names of the directories to something obvious, but then experienced users will be stuck typing in unnecessarily long directory names all day long.

And as far as gobolinux is concerned, my system is already a giant mess of symlinks. I would prefer to not have that.

Just make sure you dry it out first.

Easy.

Buy one that has drivers for linux.

Yeah, your right. It's been awhile.

You do realize that 8 mHZ computers could display text? All your quadcore 500ghz toaster does on a daily basis is compensate for the millions of layers of abstraction that is called computer programming these days.

You can buy Dell laptops and pc's with either Windows, Ubuntu, Redhat or even FreeDOS.

Actually I think I might take back what I said. I like version numbers, and don't see why you would need to have several years worth of snapshots in the same directory. That sounds like a ridiculous waste of space that nobody will ever need to go through(assuming you manage to ever finish something). Past few months worth of snapshots can be worth keeping around.

So there! Americans Rule again :)

Ok so that makes sense. I'm used to seeing releases sorted by version numbers though, I don't go for snapshots very often.

It has happened to Microsoft in the past, they just tried to keep it quiet. This was back in the NT days. To their credit though, nobody at Microsoft has access to their entire codebase. On the other hand, this is also what makes it next to impossible for them to track down bugs and fix security issues. It also explains why it takes them so long to develop software.

I suggest you look up the definitions of these words before you start using them.

A really well hidden back door would either consist of introducing a security breach, or exposing api's not normally found in that section of the code. Either way, it'll be found especially now that it is under scrutiny.

There are so many copies of the kernel sitting on thousands of different unrelated servers around the world, not to mention peoples personal backups. Anything changed can and will be found easily.