Twelve times but only if every month is as good as July. I very much doubt it :)

It seems that it was worth it to delay the release with few weeks. This 12.2 release works really well on brand new Ultrabook (in this case Samsung Series 5). Recent hardware including Intel HD 4000, and new chipset - I guess it is thanks to Intel's open source drivers (and of course hard work of packagers) that experience is this good.

Maybe Year of Desktop Linux is near?

This will be complemented in EU level with the European citizens' initiative starting 1.4.2012:

http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome

The European citizens' initiative allows one million EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies, by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal.

Germany could of course be producing 40% less co2 per capita like some other industrialized nation...

Nokia N900 seems really good and really *free* - even root access is allowed.