Darl Mc Bride, the failed salesman who attempted to sue his past employer joined Caldera Systems a dying Unix/Linux vendor, talked the aged & infirm owner into trying to sue their own customers as a revenue source using bogus claims of 'owning' Unix. Untrue, they were a licensee who incidentally didn't pay the license fees to the the true owner (Novell). When that didn't work he then launched a claim of IBM copying code from Unix into Linux & sought a huge financial remedy all the while knowing that his company did not 'own' Unix & that there was no code copied. In effect copyright/patent trolling with no IP/patents to go to war with. That this was doomed to failure was never in doubt but along the way Microsoft found a need to pay $100 million in 'license fees' to Caldera now renamed 'The Sco Group'. Some very murky venture capitalists in the shadows tipped in obscene amounts of money into this scam also. IBM & others fought back in court & refuted this drivel. TSCOG ran away & hid in bankruptcy rather than pay Novell what it was due. Curiously the extremely well paid bankruptcy administrator was highly motivated to keep pressing on with the fictitious claims in litigation. This scam was attempted in other countries where Caldera had offices but was immediately slapped down by courts in those jurisdictions. Only in America could this nonsense be allowed to go on for 12 long years & still running... American judicial system is a joke!

Be calm. This is just pragmatism. These kinds of kludges have been common since forever to work around the lemmings who cling to the old convicted monopolist platform. This too shall pass.

Please, please continue to run Windows. No seriously! We greatly value your self sacrifice in being a honeypot for every bit of malware out there. It makes life so much better for all the rest of us.

They are truly the new Micro$oft. I was quit already. I'm twice as quit now!

Firstly to mark Shuttkeworth & Canaonical. At the time when they cam on the scene Linux distro's were in a poor state. Shocking geeky installers & lousy device support. They gave the scene a big kick in the bollocks & we are all the better for it. Linux distro's have noticed & improved greatly. I agree witht the sentiment that Ubuntu is in decline. Its not going to happen overnight, but slowly & steadily Canonical is making heroic design changes which take them in an ever more proprietary direction. This is not a bad thing in itself if the changes were very popular / or made their distro awesomely better than the 'competition - but they have'nt. The result is loss of customer base. At the same time they have issues with unstable kernels & the PPA thing is just a easy way to break systems.. As a desktop user I am continually frustrated with dicotomy of stable+out of date applications stack _OR_ unstable+up to date applications stack. After a lot of testing I found Arch Linux to be very good (amazing performance & fullly up to date applications stack) but big the drawback is painfully labor intensive install process plus wild system borking changes inflicted with little warning by it's dev's. Enter Manjaro Linux (http://manjaro.org/) These guys are doing a "Linux Mint" to the wild beast of Arch - making it a very polished, feature complete & STABLE Arch based distro. Good, quick easy to use installer, semi rolling release which gives up to date applications stack but smooths out the wild swings in upstream. This is an up and coming desktop Linux, mark my words! Chris