You said it right, people who know me know I hate GNOME for that very reason "my way or the highway". Fedora only adopted GNOME because of the historical reasons mainly the core GNOME developers were from Red Hat. That said, there are some Red Hat KDE people, while KDE can block a Fedora release it's still a second class citizen within the bigger scale of things sadly.

But I'm not Asian. I just didn't make the final cut. Nice people though. I did get a nice T-shirt :)

That's why we don't let developers manage/code any puppet and we run our own yum repos (for version specific packages), the Platform DevOps side :)

having known cdlu (David) personally from our Ottawa Linux Symposium days we keep in touch on IRC (yes, maybe the first EVER elected MP to use IRC still). It is very important we have an advocate for FLOSS in government to guide others to understand technology. He can dissimulate technical details to other politicians in layman's terms. Better informed politicians are at what laws they pass the better we'll be.

Except we don't know the "command" yet to discover the hypervisor running the show. Each VM, one universe. :)

The problem is English never had a standards organization. We SHOULD still be spelling words phoentically, but sadly don't. Maybe in future this will change over time. I personally think we should re-adopt the old English letters like thorn () because, well it just looks cool :-)

Putrid weather applet? Whats wrong with it? I know there's bugsm (BBC broke but I have a patch coming to fix this)... but tell me what's wrong otherwise, after all *I* wrote it (not the QML frontend rewrite mind you) but the rest of it. I have plans to make further changes when I get some time.

That's what I thought too, there's no logic to this at all.

Then we need to spread... http://grokthelaw.freeforums.net/ As this is forming the 'NEW" Groklaw

You can still disable binary logging, as I will continue to do and as long as they don't remove this. Everyone can be somewhat more happy and get best of both including syslog redirection still.

Wholeheartedly agree with you, is it too late to save Slashdot? The deterioration of Slashdot is no surprise, considering everyone wants click-view revenue more and more, creating a stench of crap.

Please don't troll, PlayBook and QNX are not dead go troll elsewhere!

I wonder, if someone ports DRM drivers, mesa and Wayland to it... almost like Mac OS X, but with GNU userspace and a Mach kernel... I'm not saying it can't be done. Maybe I'm just crazy for such thoughts :)

With Mesa and at least, Radeon drivers all commands written to GPU are checked by a parser to prevent certain violations from occurring? The CP (Command Parser) in the Mesa/Gallium3D driver checks all commands written.