http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9142148/Review_3_top_Linux_distros_go_for_different_users

I wish there were a way to exclude pay-walled pages from the search results. What do you think about it, Google?

Please check out such books as Mercurial: The Definitive Guide and Real World Haskell. They were freely available when being written and remain such, but in the same time both books were published as usual (on paper) by O'Reilly:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596800673/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514983/

The source code used to create the books is also available. So you may use the same work flow.

> There have already been dual GPS/GLONASS systems for many years, so a triple GPS/GLONAS/Galileo system should be no problem.

Actually, such systems already exist. For example, see Topcon GR-3. There are also GPS/GLONASS/Galileo single-chip receivers.

It's not different for Python on Google App Engine. Only a subset of its standard library is available (anything that requires disk access does not work).

So, also with Python one has to code specifically for GAE. The same applies for Java.

But GAE offers free-as-in-beer and ad-free application hosting. It's OK that it is somewhat limited and is not 100% compatible with everything else.

This had to happen sooner or later. We only didn't know when and where. Now, in France.

Looking forward to the rise of anonymous (pseudonymous) P2P networks. They are almost there already, but only lack sufficient user base.

I bet on GNUnet.

There were some Russian programming languages from the USSR's aerospace community.

Please take a look at some valid literate Haskell code which tells the common Russian fairy tale. It has nothing to do with aerospace, and it is standard modern Haskell. Copy-paste, compile and run.

Another modern example is Chinese Python. Though it is a fork from the standard python.

Maybe it's just me, but the tech level required to read a book online is pretty high.

It's a matter of distribution of e-books being mostly illegal in the western world. When the means of distribution is not effectively suppressed, it is used by almost everybody. See, for example, http://lib.rus.ec/ (Russian e-books' site).

Add to that the power consumption.

You need some light to read a paper book too.

But given the typical price of a paper book $15, you can consume as much as 150 kWh if you don't buy it. That's a lot of energy. It's enough to keep the laptop on for 100 days. I believe much longer with an e-Ink device. And all these money now is wasted on ineffective legacy distribution network. Eventually, these $15 will be consumed as energy or resources, emitted as CO2 and contribute to toxic land-dump in third-world countries, with an effect probably multiple of what you, personally, can do with 150 kWh (see Multiplier effect)

And the paranoia of knowing the ebook I read today can be changed tomorrow to reflect a different view.

That's why you should download it and keep forever. Forget online readers and DRM schemes, that let you see a page, but don't let you have a _copy_. Hard drives are cheap.

Respectful publishers will sign their e-books.

Isn't Relakks offering just the same thing for P2P users?

It is in Sweden, btw.

Does anyone use it?

Right! This needs to be upvoted.

You forgot about moka pots. They are affordable ($20) and easy to use. And given a good pot, good beans, and some attention to take it off the fire timely, the drink is rich and strong. Not as strong and oily as a true espresso, but it has its own goodness.

You also forgot about turkish coffee. A good cezve ($20) is not as overpriced as complicated espresso machines. And it can serve for ages (unlike moka pots).The good turkish coffee is really good, tasty and, IMHO, it has the best and the most natural aroma. But it requires more attention and devotion to cook it right.

Happily running Debian eeePC flavour on 901 for three months. Satisfied.

What's not working out of the box:

* Intel HDA Audio plays audio well, but mic is not working right (requires newer ALSA or 2.6.28 kernel, not yet in repository)
* Bluetooth can be enabled only in the BIOS (requires reboot)
* ACPI scripts switch WiFi off correctly, but fail to switch it on correctly if the laptop was put into sleep with WiFi turned off (a workaround: always enable WiFi before putting it into sleep mode, or reboot to restore it)
* mouse driver is used instead of Elantech touchpad driver (requires kernel 2.6.28), so syndaemon cannot be used, multitouch is not working.

Most of this can be solved with a newer kernel, and everything has workarounds.

Try openSUSE (and use this link to get all the media codecs with one click). Try Fedora. Try Mandriva Heck, try Slackware.

A linux without apt-get? No way! Not once again!