Yo dawg, we heard you like emulation, so we're putting an emulator in your emulator so you can emulate while you emulate!

So if they remove the trackpoint buttons, then you'll switch to a laptop that also does not have trackpoint buttons?

Yeah, I have a collection of ThinkPad laptops that date back to the early 90's and their overall look has not changed very much, but they're damn solid machines. Even the oldest one can still run its OS. If it ain't broke, don't break it.

Yes, solar panels and rechargeable batteries. They can go into a low-power dormancy mode when dust storms threaten to block the sun for extended periods of time, and when dust starts to cake on the solar panels it can be a problem. High speed winds (aka "cleaning events") can sometimes clear this dust, which is part if how Opportunity has remained functional for as long as it has.

Slashdot is exactly the place for news like this to be posted.

Worst-case, if they don't offer it in their repos then compiling vanilla is pretty easy in Debian.

It's Long-Term Support, but not that long...

RMS, is that you?

Yeah, that was intentional. Apparently the mods didn't get it either. =)

Pull yourself together, man.

It's not even that... more of a kludge-fest.

Encouraging gamers to switch to Linux will severely limit their availability of games through Steam. I know that Steam's availability of Linux games should improve over time, but for right now it is but a fraction of what's available for Windows.

Murphy's *

...Sorry, couldn't help it. =)

If you consider palette swaps to be variety...

I don't understand what you mean. 8 has all of the same window management capabilities that 7 has. Unless you're talking about the Metro apps, which nobody is forced to use if they don't want to.