sorry, actually, it run instead of DOS, it just booted from DOS partition, without having a special Linux partition, because, why would you use DOS ??? :-)

My first encounter with Linux was with the distro MonkeyLinux - from 1997. http://projectdevolve.tripod.c... It run on top of DOS, and it was extracted inside the DOS filesystem, using UMSDOS filesytem (in each directory, there was a file, storing the long filenames, and "permissions") It run reasonably well, better than Win3.11, and even the browsing the Internet with Netscape Navigator was a much better experience :-)

The judge, that made that "UNWISE" ruling, should be "punished" by his peers (judge colleagues), for lowering the image of the whole judiciary system in the eyes of normal (sane) people :-)

"except the possibility that he may one day "come back" and have several hundred thousand Bitcoin to himself. " According to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block the comment in the first block should prove, that there are no previous blocks, and all block created afterwards, should be known. So there should be no surprises.

They seem to be the ones, that bought Borland... ('s division developing development tools, such as C/C++ compilers, and Delphi..) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_Technologies

This is (should be) a BIG dilemma... For any "normal" country... He's a brave guy, a probably could lead a better life elsewhere... BUT, if there ever should be a chance to change Saudi Arabia to a more liberal country, it'd better be changed from inside... (Probably can only happen many years after they run out of oil :-( )

As announced already last january on Slashdot,
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/0416236/spanish-extremadura-moving-40000-desktops-to-linux
" 'The project is really advanced and we hope to start the deployment the next spring, finishing it in December.' "

Now, is the time of "next spring", so they started :-)

Why? E.g. because it is more economical to drive at lower speed? And for American audience: more ecological?

http://xkcd.com/1169/
https://maps.google.com/?ll=73.103006,126.44577&spn=0.272619,1.385651&t=h&z=10

Or children of Indiana Jones? :-)

Did you read the whole article?
Even the part about "git fsck"?
I just assume, that it was a design choice of Linus, NOT to run fsck each time, when performing let's say, mirror.
Anyway, you can adjust just your sync scripts to include the fsck and carry on.
(or better yet, run git fsck after each filesystem fsck???)

It's quite funny to say "Lyndon B. Johnson a Democrat President led the USA into the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon a Republican President led the USA out of Vietnam" in a discussion about Nixon PREVENTING the end of Vietnam war 5 years sooner...

Sorry, I thought this is Slashdot (so I didn't really read the article :-(
But, in my defence, I think the summary might be a little bit misleading, which is quite a big sin, if somebody is posting a link, the summary should be correct ...

Microsoft - Wrong Choice...
Actually, their problem was, that even though they had N770 and N810, they started working on Linux phone (N900) too late...

Being in Redmond, I would start worrying about the future...
Maybe, Office and Xbox have future, but Windows might be shaking - lot's of people are happy with Android, iOS, maybe there is something behind the corner, that will make it much less interesting for the people (Linux+Wine+ "some very well marketed GUI" :-)

No, but it runs GNU Hurd! :-)
Well, almost: I wish QNX was licensed under GPL, then it could be renamed into GNU Hurd :-)