Funny thing is here in Russia my friend and I always argue about whether U.S. is a threat. Raised in USSR my friend firmly believes U.S. is solely committed to dominate Russia. "I don't want them told us what to do" - these are his words. I'm not so sure really. Both U.S. and Putin's Russia extends influence by every possible means. Both often break international law and manipulate press. And generally behaves very much the same. My point is that no doubt politics has their agenda and citizens of both countries divides on those who willingly go to play their game as a pawns and those who don't. And as long as you are trying to justify which side is more flawed you are into that game.

I once bought a Chinese USB drive which contained a virus. It was new and unpacked, from transend or some other brand, rubber case. Found it after manual mounting under Linux.

Speaking about desktop FreeBSD is like Fedora. The same fresh and untested software. I compared them side by side. Found 5 reproducible crashes in end user software. Also systemd is less a headache on desktop and FreeBSD wifi management really sucks.

As long as it's not backed up with Enterprise behind it means nothing for a real business usage. FreeBSD is not backed up either. No difference.

You are running desktop for 2 years and make judgment about servers. As I'm running _servers_ for about 10 years I would say it's wrong. There is a difference between using OS on one home PC and on a hundred of systems. $2.535 billion is not paid for using Suse as single desktop OS. And nobody pays for FreeBSD that much.

In every Windows 10 there is a WSL hidden deep inside. The Phantom Menace. Someday the Force awakens...

> Shuttleworth explains: "One of the things I'm most proud of is in the last 7 years is that Ubuntu itself became completely sustainable." Man, do you know that sustainable is not about you but about how often your project changes hourses? I gave up on your Ubuntu ambitions long before now. When you anounced the convergence idea it was obvious that in a market of Android and Windows you don't have a chance. Now you drop it. Seems like I have more sense then Ubuntu leader, so why follow?

Logical indeed. But other apps should be written that way. I'm not sure if this is always true on Windows. Don't see why Mac OS X is better. Files in /Users/username also accessable by every app.

This is funny only from a single-user PC perspective, but remember UNIX is a multi-user server system. Yep, if it's your files you _are_ a king. Nothing wrong here. No fool proof behaviour cause users are not considered for fools.

In my country a Linux migration was more a talk then walk. When Germans reported about success I though: "Said and Done. True nation." But now all this talking about back-forth switching... May be it's already enough? An IT infrastructure is not something you change every season.

Let's make a petition for Linus to ask him to write a small init. What would be better then correct integration of kernel and init.

Somebody explain to me please, how come that Lennart from RedHat _Desktop_ team, rules over everything?! I just don't get it.

Hi, as a Russian I'd like to make a few points.

> if not a majority, are still running broken Windows XP and even piratated Windows 3.1.

This is simply not true. We (not me personaly because I'm a Linux user) pirate any modern staff (MS products, Adobe, etc) very fast, partly because a lot of cracking teams are from xUSSR.

> Since these people do not use credit cards online, they do not care about security.

Well, it's actually simpler to use cards in Russia then in U.S to make a transfer to your buddy. But I agree about lot's of infected machines.

> Russia cannot produce a single PC, notebook, or even a smartphone.

That's correct. Government can't but people is another story.

> I would not believe that it has got supernatural powers to enter firewalled hardened US government servers.

No supernatural powers of course, but Russia is known for IT outsourcing. A lot of Russians move to U.S. to work in companies like Microsoft, Amazon and so on. The world known debugging tool IDA pro (used for cracking) is also made by Russians.

by the way... in russia we usually don't say "wrench" in a context like this, we say "soldering iron". FSB would used a hot soldering iron.:)

> One way train ticket to Siberia

I agree about wrench but ... Man, nobody is scared of Siberia in Russia! We just live here. And usualy ROFL when came across something like this:

"The winter in Inner Mongolia is very unforgiving. At a freezing temperature of minus 20 and lower, with a constant breeze of snow from all directions, it was pretty hard to ..."

http://travel.nationalgeograph...

I remember taking a walk without hat at minus 32, buying an icecream at -25 and a -20 is a warm winter day for walking a child.

I just don't get one thing. Let's look at OS that called Windows. It has two logout options. One to logout completely and kill all user processes and another that you can use remotely to keep your session and everything. Why do we have all this debate?? Linux session is what? Different by nature? Pardon my English.