You have always been able to install unofficial apps on Android. The incentive to root your phone (not sure about tablets) is with alot of handset makers, they are painfully slow to provide updates for ROM's phones if they provide them at all.

HTC is a big culprit: their Gingerbread update took forever and only the Desire/Z/HD & Incredible got the upgrade at all.

I thought that was America from the 1970's onwards?

We got around the rsyslog issues, had to change our build scripts from scratch but we got there.

Im just glad upstart's init support isn't broken considering its a one hit wonder and already has been replaced by systemd in Fedora

To be fair, malware started appearing on Mac after their move to Intel from PowerPC. The Mac benifited from 2 types of obscurity before the switch. Not only were Mac's not widely used back then, the PPC arch was not widely used either.

You haven't used Oracle RAC & ASM then haven't you?

This is going to be a disaster. Look there is a vast difference in styles between British and American shows that just don't cross over very well. Im not saying American TV is bad (reality TV is very bad but thats a worldwide problem) but whenever the Americans try to adopt another countries show it loses what made it appealing in the first place.

I remember the horrible mess that was the US version of The Office, as well as the Australian show Kath & Kim.

I remember Hollywood wanted to mess with Red Dwarf, replace The Cat with a female, which alone would have ruined it. What?

Please America, you do you're own thing well and other countries do their thing well. When you try to "Americanize" an overseas franchise you kill the charm that made it good in the first place.

Suddently SCO's "$699 so we won't sue you" is sounding like a bargin.

Actually Netanyahu leads a minority Government, where his party does not have a majority but he has the confidence of the Parliment (namely his party and other parties in a coalition). Out of a 120 seat parliment, his party only got 12 seats (compared to the current opposition party's 28).

Bibi is not only held by his own party, but he has to make his coalition partners happy, unfortunatally for many people (particuarly the ones in Tel Aviv) this means pandering to the ultra-orthodox extremists like Shas.

I think its more that the new GUI's are less functional and oversimplified to the point where it becomes unusable. Remember Linus' rant regarding GNOME 2? The one where he famously said "if you treat your users as idiots, only idiots will use it"?

I think its the same sort of issue, most people had more tolerence for less options than Linus. He prefered KDE3 which despite was nice, was pretty bloated at the time. The new GUI's crossed the line for alot more people.

My issue with iOS is stuff like multitasking and options were made a headache because Jobs wanted one button, the walled garden apprach also limits what you can do with the device.

My issue with GNOME 3 is it removed basic principals like minimising and maximising windows (something I do quite a bit). My issue with Windows 8 is that too, despite I see its potential on tablets using Metro on a PC is terrible given you have to mimick finger swipes with your mouse. It makes no sense.

The Mozilla team is committed to user control over their browsers: we are proud to announce in Firefox 9 the ability to change version numbers on the fly.

Firefox 9 will be released this Friday for both of you not playing Skyrim on that day.

Tell that to Steve Jobs...zing!
Oh wait, it hasn't been 22.3 years yet? Nevermind.

Why not put the libs into /lib where they belong and boot all libraries out of /usr? While we are at it, all the lib64 stuff could easily have a subdirectory (i.e. /lib/lib64). While we are at it, can we get rid of the following TLD's? /media: /mnt made sense /misc: what is this even supposed to be used for? /net: not even part of the official standard. /srv: officially there still is no consensus on how its meant to be used, plus its main uses (httpd, databases) were fine in /var /selinux (Im sure you can find a place in /usr for some of it, most of it looks like it belongs in /etc anyway) Sorry to sound "get off my lawn"ish but it all comes across as unnessecary polution to me and we really did get along fine before all these.

I do find it odd that the US is saying this decision regarding Palestine was "at odds with the international community" when every day it becomes more obvious the US is finding itself at odds with the international community on this issue.

If I recall only 14 nations opposed, over 100 approved and a few dozon abstained.

The "in writing" part is important. 9/10 a CIO doesn't know anything and thinks his people are on the same level as the kernel writers themselves and has expertise on every part of the OS that hundreds guys employed at Red Hat get paid much more than you do to specialise in one component.

An IT Manager will almost never push for CentOS on a production system, a CIO however will as he is not a tech guy that understands how things work: he's a politician interesting in cutting costs.

However, if you are a big Oracle shop your CIO may want to switch to Oracle Unbreakable Linux as they already are giving it away for free (with support) to their bigger customers.

Get it in writing that he doesn't want 3rd party support for the Operating System despite your insistance.

That way if something goes wrong, you have it in writing the CIO took a risk by cutting corners and he is responsible for a fix taking some time.