Just found out that Outlast is available on linux.

Outlast is a nice experience and quite cheap btw. You should try it while waiting for HL3 !

Strictly U.S. shit going on here.

I'd really like to know how many non-U.S. residents here on Slashdot actually even heard about the new Kanye West album, and actually considered listening to it. And the proportion of those who actually considered buying it. And then the proportion of those who DID.

Should shrink the numbers down to *very few*.

I was hooked to this real-time monitoring when the LHC was operating two years ago : http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch...

Posting this in case anyone is interested.

At first, I read "Nixon". And I was really wondering what the hell he had to do with cameras.

Rudie can't fail.

Are you saying matter doesn't matter ?

And what you're telling basically is "there might be armed criminals somewhere who might want to kill me someday, so I should be allowed to carry a gun to kill them before they do, event if killing is prohibited by law."

A gun is made for killing. There are other more effective and non-lethal tools for restraining an attacker. What you're actually defending is your right to kill someone, so please be explicit about it.

Another problem with this Mir idea is that it takes away the ability of Linux users to continue to use their fine tuned, customized X desktops which so many have invested time in tailoring to their liking, and with their own choice of window manager.

Mir is taking away the ability of Linux users who choose to stay on Ubuntu to continue to use their fine tuned, customized X desktops which so many have invested time in tailoring to their liking, and with their own choice of window manager.

You mean Java ?

This is a binary release, with most components statically-linked. Well, there are some system-level dependencies involving video drivers, and OpenGL support in X, but nothing specific to Debian. I suppose that with some tweaking you could use it on any x86-based linux distro. As I told below : it works well on Gentoo, and others have already reported it working on Arch, Mint (maybe Debian itself ?)

Can't see why Suse and Fedora couldn't run this.

I was about to whine about this release being "Steam for Ubuntu" and not "Steam for Linux", but Google told me about this helpful wiki :

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam

The client I did install from the overlay works quite well, and Team Fortress too, despite very slow disk access (don't know if anybody experienced this on other distros...). Too bad I only can play one game from my 40+ library.

Mint has better colors.

No, seriously : just try it. You'll understand why many Mint users (who have tried Ubuntu before) like to point out they moved. The "classic" Mint is as accessible as Ubuntu without all the fancy crap (and better colors). It has a very slick UI, excellent configuration tools. The Debian edition of Mint (LMDE) is also rock solid and very easy to use for a newcomer (I mean, for a Debian distro).

Anything about Mint shows how serious and skillful they are at respecting their users.

IMHO, the reason you hear so much about Ubuntu is the great amount of Windows users who switched because some guy told them it was so cool and simple to install, and while that's true in many ways, they still don't know anything about linux and end up having a lot of problems using it. Or they just can't stand the colors and are getting nervous.

Note that I'm not a Mint user : I'm running Gentoo on my office laptop, and Debian on servers, so I'm not doing PR here.

You all should bow to Canonical and thank them for Ubuntu : the fact that it exists gives you the ultimate satisfaction of not using it.

Posted parent reply as AC, didn't notice I wasn't logged on. Must say I agree with myself.

It seems to me that in France, universities are in fact actually treated as ISPs and subject to the same legal requirements (logs retention, etc.).