http://www.redmine.org It's a true multi-user Project Management System, it integrates bug and task tracking, versioning and integration with code repository. It features time tracking, wiki project documentation, mailing, reporting, many plugins such as Requirements Management, Risk Management, Peer Code Review, etc.... oh, it's FOSS... I'm surprised nobody mentioned Redmine (so far)... Eric

http://www.alice.org "Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience." the moving 3D should be appealing for an 11 years old boy... Programming is greatly helped with drag&drop and pre-made objects, but it remains a real programming language with statements like 'if', 'loop', etc and it's object oriented. Cool, really. Look at the demo video... I think it's better to begin by learning the concepts rather than rushing into bare metal programming and taking bad habits from the beginning!... Eric

weicco_ wrote:

And besides, this is a strange comparison. It is not a comparison between Linux and Windows 2003. It is a comparison between installation procedures

I'd even get a step ahead and say it's a comparaison between GUIs... But GUI is not what interests me in regard to servers. Sure it makes the sysadmin's life easier, but it doesn't improve anything in regard to reliability/availability/security and TCO... I wouldn't choose Ubuntu 9.0 for a server just because of a beautiful graphical control panel, that wouldn't be the criteria. And as somebody pointed out, Linux is an alternative to Windows, but there are also alternatives to Linux for reliable servers (i.e. FreeBSD, NetBSD)... Eric PS: btw, "clik-clik" GUI for server systems, like introduced by WinNT is also what allowed total newbie in servers and networking to self proclaim Sysadmins and to do weird things without understanding what they were doing...

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Good coffee? from a drip machine?! Yuck! you should be kidding, all what you get is "socket juice" as we call that here ;-) The only good coffee is black, dense, small with foam on top and comes from an Espresso machine. Purists like it like that and without sugar, we call it a Wild One. I prefer it with a drop of cream... Alternatively, you can get very good coffee with an Italian "moka pot": http://www.italiancoffeemachine.com/espresso_moka_mocha_pot.html[^] The secret is in the pressure!... btw, it's time for a coffee right now :-) Eric

Right! And you can add this other one also from Tarkovsky, "Stalker", which is absolutely beautiful. my top 3 (3 different Sci-Fi flavors): Blade Runner Alien Stalker Within "recent" movies, the ones I retain are The Matrix and Sunshine (and I don't even count things such as Van Damme's and other Doom-like sci-fi crap) Eric