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After getting late to the whole Linux game I've started with Ubuntu. Everytime I upgraded to the next version something broke (I think I started with 8.10 and stayed until 10.04). Everytime I got the death stare from my gf. (She just wants everything to work - why did I change anything ?). Then I didn't bother with it any more and went directly to Debian. Now I'm running nearly exclusively Debian (testing at home, stable at work / servers) and I am happy with it.

The change to gnome3 was a big ordeal (one of my desktops refused to work correctly for 2 month - another time of death - stareing), but now it seems great and stable.

I think I am not the right person for an unstable distribution.

A bit thank you to the people who make Debian possible ! Every distribution I am using and I've been using was based on Debian - Ubuntu / Crunchbang and AvLinux and it was always a good foundation for these distributions.

Me too - I really like GNOME 3.

After installing I had to go back to GNOME 2 (on a client - installation problems) and if felt old and boring - like going back to Windows XP (from Windows 7)

To be honest - I can't stand Daring Fireball too. They both are not really interesting if you are not into Apple's products. I'm just interested in them from the standpoint of - let's look what's going no over there. And to give my Apple fanboy friends a little bit of grief.

If you are not really interested in Apple products - he's not a good source of information.

And this article (without reading it) sounds really like he jumped the shark.

Funny - I've stopped reading every article from the marco.org site. I can't stand his style and I really can't stand his blind Apple - cult thinking. But to everyone his own's.

Disclaimer: I am working for a shop with much PHP knowledge. There are some really nice frameworks for PHP - for example we are using Yii (http://www.yiiframework.com/), Symfony (http://www.symfony-project.org/) and Flow3 (http://flow3.typo3.org/). I was using Yii in one of my projects and it worked really nice (altough I can't compare it to Rails or Django, because I have no experience with those).

I think it should be dot com - dot con sounds fishy !

dumb title - if it was phpMyAdmin for geeks I would say it should have more features, not less.

Looks nice - but as most of you said, there are far better options for handling this. If you are using MySQL and like some "nice tool", the MySQL workbench supports tunneling directly.

I was really shocked when I found out, that Unity is not running under Linux. They are flooding the Monologue (Mono) news feed - but their product is not running under linux. Couldn't quite understand this.

But if you don't want to upgrade you are out of luck on Apple. this was at least true the last time I had a mac. It was a G5 iMac with OS X 10.3. If you didn't upgrade hardly any hardware worked correctly , but everything after OS X 10.4 just didn't really work on this. I was pretty dissapointed and left the Mac world after this experience.

I am really no person who digs colourful designs - but these screenshots look just depressing for me. I never knew how much I liked those old icons.

true - but most of that happened in my childhood, when Austria was partnot of the EU and Switzerland did'nt subscribe to these rules.

As someone growing up at a border (1 mile from the Austrian / Swiss border) - I have to say that this is a whole different thing in Europe (between Switzerland / Austria / Germany for sure). Well you get checked for the stuff and if you are over the allowed quantities for the stuff you have with you - and you may have to show your ID but that's it. If you didn't do any wrong you have no problems.

For me (and many families in my town) it was completely normal to shop in Switzerland, or go to the gym there. I've once switched the border every day just to use the swiss highway, cause my commute was shorter and faster this way.

Reminder: Switzerland is not part of the EU (european union)

I found one problem: when I'm searching in my location (Bregenz, Austria) the closest airports would be in Germany (Friedrichshafen or Memmingen) or Switzerland (Zürich, Altenrhein) - but it just shows me the Austrian airports (Innsbruck, Salzburg) altough they are far further away. Otherwise a nice idea.

I've got the exact same feeling. Duck Duck Go looks and sounds quirky (and not in a good way for me).

I've recorded probably about 30 songs in Ardour on linux and probably had one crash at all.

Best thing is to start with a distribution with audio focus (I'm using AVLinux http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html). Then the base system is set up the correct way for your hardware.

I just wanted to respond to all the hostility / negativity towards audio on linux.

I've started recording Audio with a refurbished PC (desktop from the company I was working with) with Ardour and Jack. Mixed everything at home in Ardour on a OS X system. Later changed that system to a linux based system and I am happy with it.

I've started with ardour so I never had the problem of "missing plugins" or VST plugins I "had to use". I really like the idea of having an inexpensive "recording computer" in my rehearsal room and having the beefier machine at home to mix the recorded stuff. For the last recording I've update the recording machine to a "newer" refurbished model and it still works great.

The linuxdsp plugins are great sounding plugins (http://www.linuxdsp.co.uk/) and there is even a commercial variant of ardour - the Harrison mixbus (http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_...).

There are some things going on in the linux audio world - and they may fit your bill.

Ardour doesn't do Midi in the current version - but this may be fixed with the upcoming version (I don't do Midi - so no problem for me)