Actually it runs on the beagleboard too

The European Patent Office usually does not grant software only patents but that doesn't mean that each country can't have a diverging policy. If you RTFA, the original decision was in part motivated by the EU policy on software patents.

The summary is terrible, there is no DMCA style legislation in the EU. The article says:

IMHO openSuse is the by far the most polished KDE distro out there and yast is a very useful tool if you don't like editing config files.

Two things:
1)Nokia N900 hasn't been released yet
2)All Nokia smarphones have had the ability to sync with exchange for a long time.

Symbian has about 49% market share and linux another 8%(source).

Yup, running the experimental Kubuntu 9.04. Never had a problem with the stock kernel.

I did it like that too until the last fsck took more than 15 minutes, then I switched /home too. No problems at all.

The story broke on reddit a few days ago and someone pointed to the whois for the domain, which kinda looks like a troll. At least the hotmail address looks strange.

Well, every power can be abused, this is why they need a warrant to access the data. I'm not saying it's a perfect law but at least they aren't doing it behind your back(NSA style) and they do require the ISPs to anonymize the logs.

Could you please see this law in perspective for a moment:
1) This law requires the ISP to hold identification data for only 6 months - most ISPs keep it longer than that.
2) The only way to have access to this data is to have a court order.
3) I've never heard Slashdot complain about telcos that save call records for the exact same purpose because in the end we just want our privacy and not make it impossible for police to do their jobs.

My $.02