I'll second this question. The anonymous coward trolls on Slashdot have long been proclaiming a mass exodus to FreeBSD. Any truth in that matter?

That turned out to be fake news since it relies on a feature that is turned off by default on all but testing developers' systems. But thanks for playing.

Mark my words, this is the last time I'm logging into Slashdot. It's become just anti-FOSS clickbait with Microsoft ads littered throughout.

Why do I say this? Because every time some very minor Linux vulnerability crops up -- usually ones that have not actually affected anybody (the exceptions being Heartbleed and Shellshock) -- there's some ultra-clickbaity article about how the entire Linux world is getting pwned simultaneously. Thankfully some comments showing why this is total nonsense are upvoted, but also upvoted are anti-FOSS shill posters going on some laughable and preposterous rant about how Windows has such a better security record. Examples of this behavior include the recent GRUB vulnerability, Dirty Cow, and the systemd DOS attack.

To the staff of Slashdot: your audience is primarily FOSS supporters and nerds. You are alienating them. Start vetting your articles instead of posting any random crap that gets submitted, or your days are done.

The only issues that Trump was really firm about were ending free trade deals, curbing illegal immigration, and appointing pro-life Supreme Court justices.

What he's going to do about anything else is truly a mystery and it's probably best not to obsess over it.

I don't doubt that you're right, but you're missing the point: he said he was going to do something about it, while everybody else was hostile or silent about it. If you're in the rust belt and desperate for work, the choice is obvious. Hence why Trump swept Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Don't be daft and lie to yourself that Trump won because America is overwhelmingly populated by misogynists, homophobes, racists, and xenophobes.

He won because he spoke up on behalf of the workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing, due to free trade deals and H1-B1 programs and illegal immigration that favor big business at the expense of the middle class. Clinton pretty much openly pledged her allegiance to Wall Street, so those desperate for work already made up their minds.

That's definitely the biggest issue. There's also the fact that the Democrats are still supporting Planned Parenthood even though they've been caught multiple times illegally selling baby carcases to maximize their profits and not reporting ongoing sexual abuse, and the fact that Clinton's the war hawkiest war hawk in recent memory and people don't much like having America bombing every country it can get its grubby hands on. But hey, keep telling yourself that it's because everybody else is so uneducated and votes out of fear. I'm sure Trump won't win his reelection off of your same mistakes.

Seriously, who cares? Nobody uses Firefox because it has the best performance. They use it because Mozilla cares more about users' privacy and rights than Microsoft, Apple, and Google do, and also the superior extensions and built-in privacy/security features.

If Mozilla wants to nab some of the things that are better in Chromium right now like the PDF viewer, all power to them. Less work for the Firefox devs, and surely Google couldn't care less.

It's in fact possible to be even less competent than Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina.

Pretty sure criticizing the EU in Russia won't result in much.

I have nothing against law enforcement. But they should not be able to access my private, encrypted phone without my permission, any more than hackers or robbers should. BlackBerry thinks differently and that's why their stock is at about $2 a share.

BlackBerry should've died the moment their CEO schizophrenically boasted about how they let law enforcement pry into BlackBerry devices while simultaneously denying that there's a backdoor.

Come back when you have any evidence for your claim that the Linux migrations didn't work out well. The millions of dollars that Munich and France and Brazil boast about saving means there's a pretty heft burden of proof.

All of those links are talking about different things, they're not five updates on the same story. So let's look at them in chronological order:

First link (2007): Announcement of Linux to be installed in every Russian school.
Second link (Jan 2009): Russian gov't working on an official OS for the whole country.
Fifth link (May 2009): The proposal for the national OS is temporarily shelved due to lack of support from the legislative branch.
Fourth link (Nov 2009): A follow-up to the first link, where the plan to deploy Linux in every Russian school faces some difficulties. This article is terribly vague and there's no follow-up to this one, so it's hard to say just how bad it was; it could've gotten right back on track next year for all I know.
Third link (2010): Putin declares Russian federal gov't will move to Linux. Doesn't seem to be related to any of the previous articles, except perhaps as an official clarification of the second.

Today's article of 2016: Moscow City in particular is beginning their migration to Linux.

That's already taken, Kripsy Kreme UNIX

So out of hundreds of successful Linux adoptions, one of them (less than 1%) went back to Windows.

Sounds like the odds are in Russia's favor then.