Distros have changed. In the past, they were made up of a small, tightly knit group collaborators working toward a common goal. With distributions today we now have an informal, large group of collaborators...some of which may not even be aware of the main goal of the distro.

So far, Defective by Design supporters have ordered 70 bricks to send to Nintendo's President and COO, Reggie Fils-Aime. This is great progress, but we think with a little more help from you all, we can get to our goal of 200 by Monday

"...Your donation makes you a key supporter of the free culture movement [...] You have proven that Wikipedia matters to you, and that you support our mission: to bring free knowledge to the planet..." via Wikipedia raises $6.2 M, exceeds 2008 fundraising goal

But it's like one of those troublesome dreams. The faster you run toward your goal, the farther away it gets. The goal posts moved on us again today... but that's a good thing. They were moved by Carole Keeton Strayhorn. I have followed and supported her politically and always admired her strength and courage...not to mention her tenacity and thick skin.

– ## Why I agree with RMS on convenience vs. freedom: --
* RMS: «We cater to them (people who don't care about software freedom) to the extent it doesn't interfere with more important goals, such as establishing a free society.»

The biggest advantage if Citadel is ease of installation and ease of configuration. Both of these can be a serious hassle when you are building a Postfix mail server from scratch. So the focus of this documentation is clear easy configuration. The goal also requires a mail server that has an easy interface to make changes with and that is intuitive.

Canonical expressed their plans to achieve a ten-second boot time in June of last year for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with their reference system being a Dell Mini 9 netbook. In February, we last checked on Ubuntu's boot performance and found it close, but not quite there yet, but did they end up hitting this goal for the final release of the Lucid Lynx?

Microsoft's very latest moves whose goal is to vacuum people's personal information/profiles/medical records

Open Source for America (OSFA) was announced as a coalition to encourage U.S. federal government support of, and participation in, open source projects and technologies. If that sounds like a broad-reaching goal, it is. Nearly three months after the group's debut, I was interested to learn what progress OSFA has made toward this goal.