Gparted is a partition editor, not an OS recovery tool, as the OP is requesting. OP is asking for a recovery partition tool, which would install a set of OS recovery/resetting tools into a small partition at the start of the drive.

And the alternative is? Communism? Nice idea, but it has been shown to fail by history. You said to look at history, but if you do, you see that most of the world has been capitalist for a long time, and it has worked out pretty well so far. Yes, you get depressions, but you also get highs, one tending to follow the other.

Human nature has not evolved to share. It has not evolved to look for the best for everyone else, it has evolved to look after itself. That is why communism fails, even though, in an ideal situation, it would be the perfectly fair option. People suffer regardless, but you cannot say that there are more people suffering in the UK, USA or EU than did in the USSR.

I think you underestimate the usage it gets from the younger generations. It's going as strong as ever, and will continue to go on, until something replaces it. Social networking is here to stay, it will only evolve.

boost lambda?

The main hit for me coming from ubuntu to fedora, was the complete lack of any vital but non-free (as in freedom) software in the package repositories. You either go get it yourself, or find a repo that has it. Ubuntu has one package, "Ubuntu restricted extras" which does it all for you. That was nice.

There are four different alt+tab window selectors for compiz. You hate them all? They're also highly customizable.

I thought it was Oracle's intention to kill the Sun name, as they've certainly removed it from OpenOffice and Virtual Box, and I seem to remember hearing about moves to sell sun.com?

I have to say, Sun had the best logo in IT that I've ever seen.

But what if you have multiple computers? Or don't just use firefox, like me? That's the problem with leaving it all up to your browser. Lose your hard disk? Bye bye passwords.

A different password for every account is overkill. You just need a few, like one for services you don't trust, one for services you do, and one for your computers.

Being their 3rd bundle, it doesn't really count as news.
But it definitely matters.