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Gentoo Developers Fork udev
In October, Linus Torvalds expressed concerns that udev was making "...changes
that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity." Several Gentoo developers were also concerned about the removal of features and uncooperative nature of udev maintained by the systemd developers, so they've announced a fork: "After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus'
concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other things. We will announce the project later this week."
The project name (for now) is udev-ng, and you can grab the code from Github. Update: 11/16 21:29 GMT by U L : One of the developers commented that this isn't yet an official Gentoo project (but hopefully it will be!). There's also an informative flamewar about the fork on debian-devel.
From everything Ive heard, Windows 8 IS better, they just slapped an inexplicably horrendous UI on it. I havent heard any complaints from a technical perspective.
I installed Windows 8 on my laptop. I have no complaints from a technical standpoint, really, but just as well I have no praises to give, either: since I only use it in desktop-mode and not a single Metro - application and I even installed Start8 so as to provide a Start-menu I just do not really see anything different other than a slightly altered theme and hot corners.
I installed Windows 8 simply to see if it really is faster at booting up than Windows 7 and because it supposedly consumes less battery. Sure, Windows 8 shaved about 2 seconds off the boot-up time, but...ehh, I find it difficult to get excited about 2 seconds. And there is no difference whatsoever with battery - usage. With these things in mind I don't get the animosity towards Windows 8, but I don't get the praises, either. It's just Windows 7 with different looks.