Interestingly, the Nokia N9 Facebook App has 140.000 users.

Just wondering here...
You're not giving any names, but the biggest ADSL provider in the Netherlands is also the biggest fiber provider. So they're collecting money from you anyhow.

Yes, technically Mandrake/Mandriva was always innovative. I especially liked the installer and the DrakX tools. System-config-whatever doesn't even come close, and it's been 10 years.

Financially they were always in terrible shape. First there was the investment or loan they had from I think an Americain investor. They controlled management, and decided to head into the directionm of education. The management didn't want that, they wanted to stay in de Linux distro business. That caused the loan/investment to terminate, and there had to be paid millions back in a short timeframe.
Later on they had raised money through shares. Still they always needed money from the users, with subscriptions through the Club.
There was always the continuous hiring of people, and then the next reorganisation where people had to be let go. It seemed to happen every year.
And always there was the promise of becoming profitable next year. I even read in it this news.
For me the straw broke when they decided to let all their French developers go, and refocus of Brazilian and Russian developers.

I've used Fedora, but the upgrades every half year were a bit terrible (a whole evening of fiddling). I'm now on Debian. That's one distro that I feel will always be around, and gives lots of freedom.

I heard good things about PHPStorm. I haven't used it myself, but you could give it a try.

Like today?

I'm not sure, but I get the feeling that different groups in the opensource community are struggling to get control of their platform. Gnome peeps are doing their own thing, Ubuntu heads off in another direction. Red Hat does their own things.
The last 8 years were somewhat mixed in this regard. There was cooperation, like on freedesktop.org, but olso fragmentation and diversification. Now it all seems to fall apart somewhat. I don't see the different groups come together.

I'm really not fond of some things that are happening, like Systemd and all the other incompatible SysVinit systems. Also the mess that are the main desktops now. Then this new syslog proposal. I doubt other distro's will take this, I expect they will stick with syslog or syslog-ng.

For myself I think I'm going with Debian (testing that is) soon. Once old-school just meant old stuff, but nowadays it almost sounds like the best thing there is. All the new software with less bugs, but not the crummy new inventions which you'd rather let pass by.

I have a Blackberry 9300. If I turn 3G off, and just use GPRS/Wifi It lasts for 4 or 5 days. I don't use it heavily, so that helps quite a bit.
I do look a lot at Android phones, and last week I almost bought a ZTE Blade. Current Android, 800x480 screen, 100 Euros and good reviews. But the battery lasts about a day is what I read mostly as well. It's somewhat below avarege even for an Android phone. So I bailed out.

I think this is still the achillesheel for smartphones. Battery quality doubles around every 3 or 5 years, but phones get more demanding, and more thin, so I doubt we will see much improvement for the next 2 years.
I really wish some manufacturere would sell a cheap Android phone with long lasting batteries. I'm more concerned with battery time than with a 3mm thinner phone.
I just can't imagine having a phone that needs to be charged every day. What if I forget, or if I am busy with other things? That will effectively mean I have no phone the next day. I don't think that's acceptable. I have a phone to use, and to be reachable. If the battery is empty, the phone isn't of much use.

So iPhones and Android phones seem nice, but I'm holding off for a little while.

I'm not really interested in search, and how fast it is. I hardly use it.
I have a simple workflow. I use my inbox (or actually several inboxes) as a todo-list. Everything that's in there has an item I have to look at.
When I'm done with the mail, I delete it or pu it in a folder. That way my inbox is clear to look at, and I hardly ever forget to do something, or forget to reply to an email.
When I want to search for something (which hardly ever happens) I mostly know what I'm looking for, and can browse through the folder myself.

So for me it's not about wasted time in sorting, and hardly any time won in searching. It's about workflow.

I'm Dutch, and there has been a lot of controversy about this system. One disadvantage of the system is that it's an invasion of privacy. The government now knows exactly where and when you drive.

I just don't understand why it's needed. Currently there's a lot of tax on gasoline, and it has the same function. If you drive a lot, or if your car uses lots of gasoline, you pay more.
This system provides the same function, but with a lot of bureaucracy, and an invasion of privacy.