When was it ever credible?

It was most popular due to a lack of choices. Now that there are choices, I don't see many giving Microsoft a "second chance" - especially Web developers who have been burned for years by IE incompatibility with standards.

I always suspected that those bearded villains were behind this with their "apt-get" weapons of mass destruction.

You are right about this one. I recently listened to a podcast with Kevin Smith interviewing Mark Hamill and the Star Wars franchise is more of a blip in his career path.

He has a lot more going for him than just being typecast as Luke. He was doing voiceover before Star Wars as well as after. And he's really good. Listen to the podcast for proof.

I guess if I had to pick the comparisons (Jobs Rockefeller, Hughes, or Stark)... I pick Stark.

Hughes wouldn't be that bad if the guy didn't have that "saving my pee" habit.

I miss my old clicky keyboard. I have been meaning to pick up a modified USB model, but have not gotten around to it. PS2 to USB adapters don't work that well at boot time. We still use them for some of our lab equipment. I agree they are the best keyboards ever made.

Well done Sir. Well done.

Yet.

If you play with fire, you are gonna get burned - Vincent Vega

You are probably going to get modded down for this, but I agree with you. I rarely have downloaded torrents, but when I do, I enjoy the speed I get. However, if I did that all day long (as I know some who do), I am sure it would effect my neighbors. Until fibre becomes the standard, there needs to be something in place so that average users are not effected by the bandwidth usage of others.

He's really very short on... charm!

Of all the computers in SciFi, I think Jarvis is the best. A computer with sarcasm - priceless

• Star Trek - Computer (dull)
• Hal - (dangerous)
• Twiggy - (stutters)

I didn't get to post [citation needed]. Gee ... thanks a lot.

Considering you have a pretty low slashdot id (means you have probably seen a thing or two) AND created a well-constructed, well-thought-out argument, you are no longer the slashdot target market.

For those who are still waiting for the latest Oracle DB to be certified with RHEL 6, this appears to be one more reason to switch. Giving away an OracleDB certified OS seems like a pretty good ploy on their part. Then choke out Red Hat.

Not going to get any karma points for this move, but I see what they've done here.

No, it's a Lee Clow daemon. man clowd. Psft.... n00b!