I am extremely aware of the post-transplant requirements and complications, as my father was post-transplant (kidney and pancreas) and towards the end of his life I was one of his main caregivers.

Clearly you don't understand how the disorder works.

You can't 'cure' type I diabetes. Pancreatic transplants are the closest thing we currently have, and they are subject to the same trouble that the native pancreas suffers - destruction of the beta islet cells due to an autoimmune response.

Actually, if you're a type 1, continued eating without insulin will cause massive weight loss. Diabetic Ketoacidosis sucks.

What do you mean we won't see vocal before people before then? Plenty of us are screaming now, because we will matter even less later. You know, because cross platform compatibility was never for any sort of unix based project....(systemd might work fine on Linux, but it doesn't work on anything else. And some software (GNOME) is becoming dependent on it. Not like GNOME has ever been used on other unix operating systems or anything....).

That might be the greatest thing I will read today.

Also, AC's proposal would likely solve any ratings issues that they might have....

Think of it this way - your command is using "rpm -hiv /path/to/package.rpm"

Microsoft is adding "yum install package" to the options list.

I would imagine build on it.

Except, I don't know, SMF actually works? And doesn't have any false appearances about what it does, or what the developers intentions are?

Very possible.

Considering that we have plenty of choices other then Linux (and a few years to decide), I fail to see the problem. The staff has an inclination towards FreeBSD (because the guys above me love it). UNIX isn't out of the question, AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX could fit the bill just as well.

Or we have learned that you can't argue with Red Hat. As a company we have decided against upgrading to RHEL 7 because of systemd, and likely will be migrating to FreeBSD when it is no longer supported.

I'm waiting for our research team to get bored and start finding holes in systemd

I think Microcenter may have stopped carrying it as well. I didn't see it the last couple times I was in there.

On the flip side, I've loved every Mac that I've owned. I had a PPC 603 for a while (running OS 8.6), a G3 Powerbook (Clamshell), then a G4 (running 10.1 and later 10.4), which would later be replaced by a 2006 MBP (that I bought at a Hamfest in 2011 for $200, not bad). They did most of what I wanted them to do, and I usually had a Windows desktop that the gaming took place on (with the exception of the 603 that was my only computer at that time....oh the hours of Starcraft, Diablo II, and MechWarrior....), and a Windows/Linux laptop that was my *normal* system (I usually by a Windows laptop on a 4-5 year cycle).

Where was I? Oh yes, I loved all of the Macs. They had the stability that I wish Windows had, and the polish I wish Linux had. Plus commercial software support - outside of gaming (which is certainly changing) I never had an issue with the software I needed not being availible for Mac OS or OS X.

Sadly, I'm hearing that the hardware reliability has died with the newer laptop lineup. My 2006 MBP and 2007 MB are still kicking, but are showing their age at this point with more recent software (Firefox....Flash...)

I wouldn't expect the Acer to last two years....

Also, I've never seen an entry level laptop with an SSD....the MBA is comparable to an Ultrabook (which cost just as much last time I checked) and the MBP is competitive in price to the Dell Precision line.

Pulseaudio bugs should be reported to a certain Lennart Poettering (you may have heard about him before) and became standard thanks to Red Hat. ALSA was fine, and OSS wasn't bad either (it was the licensing they didn't like IIRC).