Two articles from NRO and Vox, two publications at the opposite end of the ideological spectrum:

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/375283/what-bitcoin-and-what-it-good-patrick-brennan
http://www.vox.com/2014/3/31/5557170/bitcoin-bad-currency-good-network

You're welcome, and please consider this an implicit plea not to discontinue the offline bundle for Ubuntu 10.04.

etotheipi and team, thanks for creating such an awesome and secure client!

My installation might actually be a bit below memory specifications, and may run slower than others', but it does work. The online machine has 4GB RAM, running 32-bit Linux (Fedora 20, upgraded using fedup from 17 -> 18 -> 19 -> 20). My two redundant offline machines, which are identical, are 455MHz Pentium III boxes with 256MB RAM, running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and the Armory offline bundle.  (I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04.3 on the offline boxes, without success. I installed Ubuntu from CD, and one of the machines apparently has a defective CD-ROM drive, resulting in a 40-hour install that ultimately succeeded -- luckily, there were no blackouts during those 40 hours, and the cats didn't unplug the machine ... 8^)

When I instantiated the second offline machine, I used only the paper wallet backup from the first offline machine to recover my wallet, and (of course) it worked like a champ. That was my own exercise in making sure this stuff really does work -- and it does!

Opened on GitHub: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3464

(Wasn't sure if I should also create a forum topic for this issue; if the GitHub issue is sufficient, please feel free to delete this topic.)

Hi all, new member here (but I guess you figured that out because I'm posting in "newbies" ...).  Waiting for dwolla and Mt. Gox to agree that I can be trusted to actually join the BTC movement.