The biggest problem with the newer generations is that you can not swap out the bumpers for something that can take even a light hit on a rock. In Colorado that makes most trails a no go as even the best driver is going to hit a rock.
"Plus, how does a modern 'surfer' know what they don't know (a site that should be included but they haven't come across it yet)?"
Yahoo had a form that allowed you to submit your site to be added to the directory. You included the URL and categories you would like to be listed in. It would then be evaluated and added by a Yahoo employee. It was one of the first things I would do after creating a new web site in the early 90s.
The userland and kernel are developed together by the same group of people/project. So the design is consistent across the system. In Linux the kernel comes from Linus and the kernel development team. The userland usually comes from the GNU core utils team, the distro creator and several other places. This can cause disconnects between how various things in the system work, kernel patches to get a random features to work, etc.
In Denver and Boudler I'm seeing SWE postings with salary 100K - 160K. Not really much different then SF and a lot cheaper housing. You are really much better off in Colorado then Norhter California. Don't tell anyone!
Can we please stop referring to spins and skins of existing Linux distributions as a whole new OS? There doesn't appear to be much hear that a highschool kid could not do in a few days. Pretty under whelming for an effort of a nation state of 1.3 billion people.
MSFT and FB want to maintain and increase access to the 1.35 Billion people of China. Not ironic at all, those companies need to be in China even if treated poorly.
Yea, I am not buying it. They have a UNIX guru that is building new commands in assembly and transferring the files with uuencoding but no one knows how a recovery tape works? Using a recovery tape was not a rare event in UNIX shops.
Why did they not boot from installation/recovery media, mount the drive, copy what was left, restore and copy back the user and configuration data that was found?