One of the biggest selling points for DTrace is its scripting language. It is extremely powerful and you can find dtrace scripts shared by others that allow you to do very powerful system stats gathering (e.g. here) How about doing something similar for LTTng - you could even do something simple like Lua hooks for LTTng

Have you guys tried Haiku (the BeOS remake ) ? Yesterday, was incidentally their Alpha2 release and it was what an instant-on OS should be like. Booting was under 5 seconds and it was beautiful.

The install zip file was just 196 mb.

You are talking about the slowest growing mobile market - America - and not the fastest growing mobile market: India and the rest of Asia.

Today, in India, we have $90 contract-free cellphones with qwerty, 3G and Opera Mobile (which is the key to all of this really, with its browsing experience). A lot of them bundle document viewers, calendars and cameras. For the majority of Asia, this is the most affordable way to access the internet.

Not to mention built in apps for Twitter and Facebook. I dont want to give free links to some of these manufacturers, but a lot of them are chinese-made mobiles with local after-sales.

Just wait till these cheap phone makers take up android, and you'll figure out why it is that India and China are hollering for IPV6 at the top of their voices.

For a very long time, the network manager in KDE did'nt work very well - it is in KDE 4.4 that the networkmanager Plasmoid was even included ... and I do not know whether it is enabled by default.

I want to love KDE but there are exactly two things that hinder me:
1. basic usability - network manager, desktop look configuration (Cashew... really ? Desktop Plasmoid for icons ?)
2. Native browser - move to Webkit already. Who uses KHTML seriously ? QT Chromium and I'm in...

That is because the wrong countries are being targetted - economies with the cash to spend on Macs and Office 2010 and you try to sell Ubuntu ? For all its charm, one has to admit the relative lack of polish of Ubuntu vs Win7 or OSX.

The countries to be targetted actively are countries like India which has a highly active open source user base, has a exchange rate which works against proprietary software and has the highest growth of mobile and internet technologies.

And has Ubuntu, KDE or Gnome foundation based even one of their conferences in India ? Why, when i daresay there would be hundreds of universities ready to host them for free.

The positioning is wrong.

http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/bible/bos/int_schillings.html
Benoit wrote, what is referred to by Wikipedia, as OFS (Old Be File System) which was then replaced by BFS.

+1 Though I would still *advocate* for OpenOffice (since Softmaker's ODF support is flaky), but the reality is that most of the world's business information is locked in DOC/XLS/PPT. And the excellent compatibility of Softmaker to MS formats (especially XLS) , makes it a transition path towards Linux.

I couldnt help but notice that there are no 3g based projects. I know that many (not all) of the 3g chipsets that you need to build any product are covered under extremely restrictive NDA.

However, I had really hoped that there would be atleast one

Note: OpenMoko does not disclose its 3g firmware (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA01_gsm_modem) Upgrading the modem's firmware is technically possible but no proper software is currently legally available to users outside Openmoko staff

very cool!
thanks... However, I am not too keen on hacking window-managers.

I just wish stuff like this could be packaged into a "bells-and-whistles-included" distro - like say Stubuntu (!) and made it so that it is inherently click-and-configurable.

Do check out ZFS-Fuse . Development has accelerated over the past couple of months and it is very usable with decent performance.

Atleast one commercial offering is using ZFS-FUSE in its products - however, no idea whether it is using a custom non-community build.

I am using ZFS-Fuse on Ubuntu Hardy with 2 hard disks in a mirrored configuration, serving its files over Samba. We do incremental backups everyday (which the filesystem supports) and are quite happy with it.

ahh.. but the publicity. Every real boy wants the box that is used by the Men-in-Black .

Why dont you use the Nokia N900 for all your stated purposes.

Given that it is running a variant of Debian Linux (Maemo), and has a 5MP Carl Zeiss camera (which has provably excellent video recording , it takes care of your video needs.

It is also multitasking, so you can switch on your video recorder and flip to your notes.
Given its pre-release price of 650$ (without contract) and the fact that the developer market for Maemo is a given, considering it's Debian roots, I'd say it makes for a pretty decent solution for you.

Goat is used interchangeably with mutton (sheep) in Indian cooking - as curries or (minced) as kebabs

Try indian goat curries and save the planet !

What if the article was published in Asian countries like India - which is predominantly English speaking, has a free press that loves anti-colonial articles and does not recognise British libel laws ?

I thought ASLR existed to make life difficult for trojans and viruses. So that, even if you did click on those pictures of Britney, you would'nt end up with your credit card information stolen.