Also would have accepted "Babel Fish."

When I watched Prometheus, this episode came to mind. =)

I especially like how they threw a "!=" into the headline. It's the hip thing to do. Oh, Slashdotters will find that charming!

Of course, the more pedantic among us will twitch at the use of a logical operator as a copula. :)

It really begs the question of what could be so important to type that it needs to be done while standing in a checkout line.

(On another topic: your sig is feeding the trolls.)

Well, even a distro that provides a package management system does not force you to use a packaged kernel. You can roll your own from vanilla and have it coexist happily with other pre-packaged kernels in /boot. I did this in Debian for years.

Just the thing to pour into my space mug and drink with my space breakfast while I read my space newspaper.

No true astronaut puts sugar in his coffee.

In Rodney Dangerfield's voice:
I've heard of coffee with a citrus overtone, but this is ridiculous!

What do the residents of the planet have to say about this?

I have no idea.

I like how that got modded insightful. Only on Slashdot does one earn praise for arguing Star Wars on a science news post. =)

Maybe if you wrote the image of a btrfs volume to a tape?

And make sure those backups aren't also on a btrfs volume.

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

Therefore, Obi Wan is a Sith.

Yeah, it's fun to tinker with each new Ubuntu release using a live CD or VM, but a pain in the ass to need to upgrade the OS on a production computer every six months. Something inevitably gets altered, broken, removed or replaced. You can never fully get used to everything. Canonical likes to adopt new technologies before they're ready and then drop perfectly functional ones on a whim, and that's fine for people who like to have the latest and (arguably) greatest.

So, I stuck Xubuntu 12.04 on my laptop, got it configured just the way I like it, and will happily not waste time with installation and configuration for another four years.