I really need to take some time to learn F# and really get into functional programming. Now that F# is going to be widely available on Mac and Linux as well as Windows, it is a lot more interesting.

Now I feel old.

LOL. I'd like to try to see them claim trademark on Hobbit!

Apparently some counterpoint has come out...

http://techrights.org/2014/11/12/openwashing-lockin/

@NetworkNerdWifey said:

Why can't this be what's all over my facebook newsfeed instead of. kardashian's bare hiney?

I like the mod where she's a centaur best. Too freaking funny!

Valve is doing wonders for the Linux desktop space.

They should have more info about it and announcements if they are telling writers and having them put it in the news as if it is showing up via O365's normal processes. That's very confusing and does nothing to make people happy with the product.

@Dashrender said:

I guess I'm going to have to look this up, I've never heard of Functional Programming.

It's pretty big today. In general, though, people aren't switching to F# or Haskell. Instead they use the new functional extensions in C# or other languages to mix functional and procedural elements together to make it far easier for non-functional programmers to add functional elements without being unable to program normally.

That's a pretty neat idea.

Nice!

Suse is great. It's the big German distro that is the dominant Linux in Europe. It's very much on par with Red Hat as being fully supported and enterprise ready.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I think I'm going to stick with 7 and then jump straight to 10 as I expect users will find the transition from 7 to 10 easier than 7 to 8.1. Plus, it means I'll only have two OSs to support (7 and 10) rather than three (7, 8.1, 10).

At this point definitely a good plan. Windows 10 is not far away and looks like it is going to be a really good release.

I will be updating my Fedora 20 development server as soon as Fedora 21 is available.