My linux box has required one (1) reboot because a game locked up.   I've been running Mint on that machine since what, May 2010 and I can count the times I've actually had a lock up of Mint on my left pinky finger.

During this time I have had to fix my wife's three laptops (four now, I forgot the one I refurbed for my own use at work) multiple multiple multiple times each.  She gets something, screws up a machine, goes to the next one and inside a week she's got whatever it is crapping up that one.   She has to bring the sick ones home before she carries out the final spare -- this gives me a night or so to fix one before the one she is using craps up.    Universities and students catch every viral germ that exists and they give to the teach right along with their papers and presentations when they turn them in electronically.

I've got 1 XP, 1 Vista and 2 Win7 machines.   The very oldest is the white box, a HP Pavilion desktop that was bought back when XP was pre-service patch and it was built using the very first 1ghz AMD 64 bit Athlon chipset that ever came out.   It was put in a closet finally because the CD and hard drives quit working right ...... the issue was really MicroChoke getting twisted up by a root kit because the same drives all work fine now running on Linux.   It amuses me because windows diagnostic programs from MS and from the drive vendor all said the hard drive was toast .... unrecoverable file errors, surface damage, bad heads.  Linux said, go there do that -- and it did.  Linux saw bad sector, blanked it out.   The bad head was apparently still able to read and write, so it does.

Like I said, my oldest machine runs Linux Mint 9 like a scalded dawg and it has ZERO issues doing it.   And, to my amusement Linux Mint 9 is over a year past its support ending and guess what, it still works fine.

Folks have been tracking the day to day donations graphically looking for trends and trying to be able to predict the end game.  The graphs are not encouraging right now.

Right now things are just about flat lining and the buzz has died down a whole lot, so folks are now predicting a failure to reach the 31 day 32 million dollar goal.

Shuttleworth can rebuzz it up some by releasing some details or showing some Youtube of prototypes in action or doing interviews with supporting phone companies --- or he can let it die as it lies, to be resurrected magically when one of his phone makers comes through with the dock and the I/O socket  (he has been using a box standard USB 3.0 socket so obviously he could do that in production as well because that is what most all phones use).

Here is a quote from an anti-Linux anti-Edge publication, please note they are very careful not to bang the convergence idea per se, just the current technology front it is pushing up against.

"The Ubuntu Edge, as perhaps the name suggests, is a bleeding-edge device for people who want to be first in line to experience the consolidated, carry-your-desktop-with-you future. In that regard, it’s a very exciting device indeed. Even if it does fail miserably, it lays the groundwork for an exciting new breed of converging post-PC devices — and, ironically enough, we’d finally have a Linux desktop that’s capable of gaining significant market share."


They said something in that last sentence though -- they fully expect somebody to do something "convergent" and Edge like very soon and they do expect it will work well enough to "gain significant market share".

And this is from the enemy camp.  This is not a fan boy.  This is a guy who actually dissed the deal as it is written, but he didn't diss the idea or the technology behind it because he KNOWS a Snapdragon 800 swinging the new 4 gig fast memory chip and one of the new SSD chips would fill the bill very nicely.

Me, I think 32-64 gig of SSD drive is a gracious plenty personally.  None of my linux partitions are that nearly that big for any of the 5 versions that have been put on my old white box's hard drive.  20 gig is typical for a full bore linux distro partion set, you see Linux doesn't take up a great deal of space, really.   Phones currently give you 16 to 32 gigs of hard SSD memory right now, so a workable range exists now without going all the way to the top.

Most phones have a memory card slot too, and those can go way up now, past 100 gig.   Use the memory card slot to store your fixed data like old pictures, movies, presentations, etc.   Or use cloud storage for the static dead stuff, it's is pretty much free for the first 5-15 gig.   I think your dock station also gives you the ability to plug in more USB devices, so put you a portable hard drive off the dock for archiving the stuff you don't need this year.

And as I have said, since I don't carry my diamonds in the same pocket as my phone, so I don't need that Sapphire touch surface either.   That's just some expensive glitz to me.

The phone is currently developed and demo'd using Nexus 4 and LG phones that really don't have killing huge specs.   It works, but it isn't kickass by any means.   It works at a mundane rate, like most of our personal machines do.

Shuttleworth wants them totally modern upper end specs because he WANTS the experience to be eye popping ass kicking fast, faster than anything on mobile -- just as fast as Android is currently on the same device as a matter of fact.  

He really wants to get up into the fast PC zone ....  and by golly he can cheat some with the OS to do just that, now can't he?

(he's using the same android drivers btw, so he knows his stuff will work just fine and at least as fast as Android runs on the same device).

So, it's time to deal another new hand in this here poker game, Mr. Shuttleworth.  

Ask for a few new cards, or you can chicken out now and fold what you got right now after only a week of fairly great success.   You got your idea out there and people want it.

Me, I think we will see us another round of bumping and betting starting next week, this here boy's poker night out is way way too young for everybody to go home jest now.

Im defragging now,, less than 40%, been at it about an hour, it was Scattered,,


Took close to 2  hrs I guess,, done now tho! & I dont hear it hunting now,, much quieter

If you havent defragged, you need to at least have the software analyze your drive & See if it needs it.,

I think it really needs to BE "fragged".. in a military slang kinda way

You really otta contact the company. maybe ask who their PR company is.

I knew  mechanic who went to the White Superior manufacturing plant & showed them how to redesign a part that was a regular problem,, Solved it for them. All they paid him was his transportation & hotel & food costs,, didnt give him hoot for the savings.. or the intangible benefit of the increased dependability,, but, he wouloda done it again I think..