The GNOME 3 project seems to do its utmost best to loose the GNOME 2 user base.

I switched to KDE earlier this year after months of trying to deal with the frustration of a combination of broken and removed features.

I wish to congratulate GNOME 3 on their new business, and I know they'll do very well; and good luck -- as best as your interests don't conflict with my interests and I don't have to use that GUI.

XP was exactly what it's version says, Windows NT 5.1. It had tweaks to Windows 2K; mostly cleaning up little things that didn't work in the API (like debugging).

Windows XP was the last version of Windows that was worth development or user effort. Vista just never worked, and Windows 7 is just a fix for Vista. Windows 8 is a confused mess. MS should have written s tablet only platform and merged them later; mmm, that should like what Apple did.

Large commercial users of Windows use 2008 Server R2 on the back end and Windows XP on the front.

Why a gamer would want an OS that takes a core and huge chunk of resources to run is anyone's guess; in fact, it's not true.

What drug was that? And who was the professor?

Has anyone noticed how similar Linux is to Windows? And this is just following that trend.

I've been using a variety of systems lately, and I am constantly shocked at the way the Windows mindset is embedded in Linux. (For example, why on earth are they using systemd?)

I think the benevolent dictator has lost his way.

I can't see why system dependent features can't be included in system specific builds, but of course, that's not the Window way,

This is interesting, a wealthy global company taking on a powerful sovereign state and largest European market. Maybe Germany will take another look at Facebook's local tax arrangements.

It should be a dismissable offence it bring this thing any where near where you work. You probably couldn't even trust it if it were still boxed.

I think he's confusing system software with applications. The behaviour of iMovie has nothing to do with the OS it runs on.

Windows is more popular because it got there first, it got computers into home and followed cheaper computers into businesses. Linux started poping out some time later and still not about to replace Windows in the average home.

Commercial users of all operating systems pay for consultancy. Would you bet the farm on a labour saving device without making sure you had expertise on hand to manage it for you?

I remember when DDJ published the BSD i386 source, that was pre-Linux. It's said that Linus wanted a better Minix, but before that were the Berkeley Software Distribution and the GNU Toolset.

It's not at all clear why Linus is singled out for credit.

Being wrong doesn't make them idiots.

And who pays for the downloading of all that stuff that may never be used?

Mobile devices can switch off memory that isn't used, but if the device is constantly full of clutter, the device can't power off that memory.