This "GNOME to drop non-Linux support" sensationalism on the net is ridiculous. There has been no such proposal! Yes, I RTFA and the full mailing list discussions.

The proposal in GNOME's desktop-devel-list was by the author and maintainer of systemd to let GNOME adopt systemd as the mechanism to configure certain system-wide settings, like locale and timezone data. This would be implemented as a dbus interface which would spawn a mini-daemon via systemd when that was required. This would solve the age old problem of every distro having their own slight variation on how to configure these things.

Notice the key part of the proposal: the dbus interface. This is the proposed dependency, and not the whole of systemd which, yes is Linux only, but in reality is just a reference implementation for this dbus interface which can be VERY easily reimplemented on any system (the minidaemons themselves are very trivial, porting systemd to other platforms however is not).

What this proposal ACTUALLY means: (a) Non Linux platforms, or Linux distros not yet using systemd, would initially have grayed out certain configuration options in the control center, like locale for example. (b) These settings can be made available just by implementing a trivial dbus interface.

Nothing of this dropping non-Linux OS support nonsense. Hope this clears up the nonsense somewhat

Good work. However, there are differences in how ancient Greek text was written, and how WE write ancient Greek text.

In particular, there was no white space, which you correctly have removed. But, there where no "daseies" and "ypogegrammenes" either. For example for the daseia, it was usually written as an eta. And most of the time, the ypogegrammeni is an extra giota lost in time.

There are probably many more little details which affect the way you are supposed to count the characters. Disclaimer: I am not an historian, and dead languages are not my area of expertise. But I am Greek and was forced to study ancient Greek for 5 years at school.

This is probably nitpicking, but the tracker the file originated from is not "a small, private tracker".

It is actually one of the most regarded private trackers, and the largest private music trackers currently operational. In terms of provided content, it is BY FAR the biggest private tracker on the Internet, past or present, with over 600k torrents.

IMHO it is one of the best places for any music lover to hang out on the Internet, with a great selection of music, awesome community, and friendly staff, and it isn't really that hard to get into either.

What is really interesting is how the upload of the original file was to fill a request with a very lucrative bounty of 1.6 TB. For one and a half year, no one really believed that the request would ever be filled, but people kept voting it up, quickly ranking it as the largest bounty on the site.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the aforementioned tracker.

It does. Even Von Neumann's reaction to it is included. I had the chance to read the Greek version in august, and it is pretty awesome. Both for computer scientists and mathematicians, it is pure win. I'm so glad that it gets published in English as well now, I would HIGHLY recommend this comic book to any geek.

Only, that it's not. I've been able to set my own DNS server like FOR EVER in Gnome. Don't believe me? Right click Network Manager icon > Edit Connections > (Select connection to edit) > Edit > IPv4 Settings > Method: Automatic (DHCP) addresses only. Voila!

Though personally I much prefer the older gnome-system-tools network interface, being much simpler and easier to navigate, I find the latest Network Manager GUI needlessly complicated. And I hate how it abuses the tray area, clearly against the HIG, for something that should be an applet, but I have yet to see an OS that gets this right.

Now that I think of it, this would certainly be a useful feature to have for some people. But in 10 years of using Linux, it has NEVER occurred to me that I might want to pass my right clicks to a terminal application. Then again, in what way does Gnome force anyone to use gnome-terminal? Following the same way of thinking Gnome should bundle Emacs instead of Gedit, or Octave instead of gcalctool.

I don't see why the basic utilities bundled with a DE shouldn't be, well, just a basic suite which can cover 99% of use cases. I, for one, am happy that my desktop offers me an easy to use terminal application which doesn't suffer from feature creep.

Now if we are talking about core desktop elements, like gnome-panel or Network Manager, it would be another thing entirely since you wouldn't expect even advanced users to switch them out. But installing their favorite tools, is exactly what you would expect from more demanding users, and while this is no excuse for not adding some simple features that would benefit everyone, it certainly means some obscure feature requests will sometimes not be implemented.

I agree though about setting different wallpapers on each workspace. This is the one single feature I have been missing since switching from KDE, back in the gnome 2.6 days.

This is offtopic hardcore, but you're wrong.

The greek word for god "theos" is written with a theta and pronounced with a theta, not a delta, always has been this way. Thus theist is right, and deism is, well, something else entirely.

Etymologically, deism isn't related to theos at all, it's root is the latin word deus, see here. Deus in turn stems from the greek Zeus, the king of the gods.

I'm not sure if such a confusion exists, since any greek word with a delta that I can currently think of, has kept the D in it's latin form, e.g. dermatology, daedalus, delphi, dynamic, et cetera.