Without ever unmounting, in the middle of a xorg build, I just created a new primary partition on an otherwise-unused disk, initialised it for LVM, added it to my LVM volume group, grew my volume group by 31GB, and grew my XFS partition by 31GB. The build didn't blink, and I now have a fair whack more free space. That is so incredibly cool, and mad props to whoever's responsible for this rocking so much.

Wouter asserts that Ubuntu has more than 30 full-time employees. I know it wasn't his number (Scott came up with it and should've been a bit more clear), but it's badly wrong, anyway. Canonical has more than 30 employees, but Ubuntu ... the full-time distribution team hardly breaks double figures. That's pretty comparable to the number of people working on the m68k port (albeit the latter are not funded full-time). But it's an interesting point nonetheless, and thanks to the assumption that Canonical does nothing other than Ubuntu, people seem to assume that Ubuntu was produced by a team of 30, 40, whatever; not even close. That team was barely ten.