For those of you who do not think that Linux can do anything cool, much less play video games, I have some words for you: Quake 3 running at 10240x3072 resolution at 15-30 FPS. Yes, the resolution is, indeed, 10,240x3,072. Any game that runs in Linux can do this (most likely games that run through WINE or Cedega as well (such as World of Warcraft.

This system is using DMX and

From Linux Journal I found a link to an article Linux is Not Windows that gives nice explanations for why some people who express that Linux needs some feature from Windows to be more accepted/easier to use are not always embraced with open arms.

If anyone would like some fun reading about switching from Linux to Mac, check out these pages:
Interesting to read, but not well written, IMO:
http://www.bitrot.de/macswitch.html

This one is better written:
http://www.possum.in-berlin.de/scot/texts/ibookfirstyear.html
Choice quotes:

Christmas any day of the year. Unpacking an Apple product is an experience in itself. The way the box is put together suggests that somebody went to a lot of effort to protect something very valuable and precious, and that Steve Jobs himself will be around with some of his associates to have a little talk with you if you mistreat it in any way. Pure marketing bull, but it works.

Here is a nice document on why the Linux kernel does not have a stable API.

So one of my developers (the ISO Team Lead, David Kowis) is thinking of revamping our init system (currently simpleinit-msb) to use metadata to define how the init script should work and then we have a 'library' that builds a specific init script (here is a list of currently planned init systems) based on that information. In this way the user/system administrator decides which init system to use (since some people prefer Sys V).