Along with the usual trolling and religious flame war.

Actually, never thought of Linux as "reliable". FreeBSD, on the other hand...

I was using my Linux laptop to copy several dozens of megabytes from a mounted NFS share to my N900 with sftp over WiFi. Inbetween, the NFS server died (because it's running OpenSolaris ) causing the file transfer to hang.

I walked over to the Solaris box, pushed the power button to shut down cleanly (apparently only the network connection died) and booted it up. After a minute or so I noticed that the hanging file transfer just continued as if nothing had happened!

Because the laptop and N900 were running Linux!
(and because it was a NFS hard-mount)

It's not that simple. Quote from Wikipedia: "While ext3 is more resistant to file fragmentation than the FAT filesystem, nonetheless ext3 filesystems can get fragmented over time or on specific usage patterns, like slowly-writing large files."

I've always been on the scarce side of disk space, very scarce I'd say, usually under 10%, and in more than 10 years I've had any issue with this, not with ext2, not with ext3 and not with reiserfs. C'mon, a hard disk only has two known states: empty when you buy it, almost full the rest of its life

That has nothing to do with linux per se, and everything to do with a propietary software provider restricting itself to certain OS.
And since they seem to have a Mac OSX version, probably porting to linux would be trivial (may be just recompiling)

I was dual booting Ubuntu and Windows XP on my age old laptop until I got my uncle's old laptop, which is essentially the same, except for some more RAM and a newer processor etc.
The funny thing was, not having the time to freshly set up my dual booting environment, I decided to try just swapping the disks of the two laptops. It was the perfect test, how Linux and Windows would handle the change of hardware
So I started up Ubuntu and was very exited, that it seemed to boot normally. However instead of a login screen I just got a black screen But Linux was running, I could SSH into the machine and found out, that the graphics card of the new laptop was using its VGA connector instead of the laptop display as default output, so I fixed that in my xorg.conf and all was well.
I was however a bit disappointed that I had to change something at all... but only until I tried to boot up Windows After selecting Windows in GRUB it failed immediately with a blue screen. No way to fix something over SSH, just the option to boot Linux and try to fix my Windows from there, which wasn't a success...
Needless to say, the next bit of free time went into kicking Windows off of there and upgrading Ubuntu, while I was at it.

Because of this, I discovered that my standards and expectations had risen over the years I had been using Linux and if people accuse me of having too high standards, which they regularly do, I just reply: "Its because I run Linux".

I've been using linux on my work laptop for a few years, originally I moved when windows died amd refused to boot probably due to bad disk, but i could boot an ubuntu from cd and save my data.

now on those occasions i have to use windows for testing, i find I get very frustrated very quickly. it has a tendancy to stop responding to any input for small periods, linux seems to isolate this to the individual app which is having trouble, windows seems to lock everything. also now I'm so used to doing things in the commandline, that windows commandline drives me nuts very quickly.

most people get sick of my response to most of thier windows probs being 'you wouldn't have this problem in linux' but I have converted 4/5 people, who have no complaints.

I so much love "Vista"!!!!
before "Vista" I occasionally used linux....
After one year of "Vista" I completely switched to linux...

I sure hope you pointed out how you built the demo in the hall a few minutes before and on the N900!