"Imag­ing you'd sim­ply hold your smart­phone be­sides your PC's mon­i­tor a NFC (near field com­mu­ni­ca­tion) sys­tem in phone and mon­i­tor de­tects the rel­a­tive po­si­tion, and flick the email ed­i­tor over to the PC al­low­ing you to con­tin­ue your ed­it there. Now imag­ine that this hap­pens ab­so­lute­ly trans­par­ent to the pro­grams in­volved, that this is some­thing man­aged by the op­er­at­ing sys­tem. This is where I want to go. Not that cheap ef­fects lol­lipop desk­tops Ubun­tu/Canon­i­cal, In­tel, Red­Hat/Fe­do­ra and Gnome(3) aim for."

"This book is both practical and philosophical. Some parts are aphoristic and general, others will examine specific case studies in Unix development. We will precede or follow general principles and aphorisms with examples that illustrate them: examples drawn not from toy demonstration programs but rather from real working code that is in use every day."

"If *I* was in charge of the DL's computer, I wouldn't put on *only* Linux or *only* Windows or what have you. I think the DL needs a multiboot machine, and would really appreciate it if you tried to make him one with everything."

"From a simple, simple project that is suffering from an inexplicable near complete lack of attention from the free software community comes a revolutionary change in the way that free software is developed and distributed. ... It's just that the implications of its deployment really haven't been fully uncovered. Those that have been discussed here are pretty monumental. "

"apt-gentoo enhances the Debian package installation experience to make it fully competitive with newly-popular source-based distributions. As packages are installed, apt-gentoo automatically downloads their build logs from the buildd network. The logs are then slowly scrolled past on the user's terminal to simulate building the software on the local machine. apt-gentoo optionally, and by default, gives increased realism by spinning the CPU in a tight loop between build log lines, and writing large files to disk."

"It began with a few pilot projects, and apparently these have been so successful that the Russian government has now decided to make it the standard for *all* schools."

"The new iKIT is about the size of a PDA from ten years ago, but has a QWERTY keyboard and connects to the Internet at 3G speeds via your cell phone or Wi-Fi. The $175 Linux-based system has a Webcam built in, as well as a range of applications, including Web browsing, e-mail and IM."

"BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc.)."

"Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try the

"Storage is an exciting project to replace the traditional filesystem with a new document store. Storage is part of a larger design for a new desktop environment ... The current implementation offers natural language access, network transparency, and a nu

"Why can't my computer automatically show me things that will help me with what I'm doing, instead of making me search around for them? The goal of the dashboard is to automatically show a user useful files and other objects as he goes about his day."

"Don't worry, he's running a Linux file server on it."

"The creator of the virus, who goes by the moniker "Anonymous Longhair", modified the well-known Melissa virus to download and install Linux on infected machines."

"The more we tighten our grip the more software will fall through our fingers. ....Oh wait, which ones are we Linux guys again, Rebels or Empire?" "Microsoft is the Empire. Apple is the Rebels. We are the Ewoks."

"HURD - No, seriously... whenever a system crashes, you can pop it in, and BAM - you get the certain knowledge that, no matter how bad things might be, you're at least one step above absolute rock bottom."

Lost of nifty open hardware, etc.

"My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun."

Ad-hoc distributed computing using a Linux LiveCD based system.

Make that box a firewall or a *nix testing ground, or simply give it away.

Doom as a tool for system administration.