I want a Wii. If I wasn’t committed to getting a new MacBook, I would be getting a Wii rather soon. GD college preparedness. Yet, I am rather excited about several things:
Hrmm… some news over on Tech Crunch… Again:
More Merger Rumors – Xuqa, Dovetail, Zooomr
The acquisition rumor train is running at full steam. We’ve got the really small deals going through ebay (see our post yesterday rounding up the recent ones), and lots of chatter about the largest independent web sites looking for $1 – $2 billion (see Facebook and YouTube). Even Napster, a public company with $100 million in the bank, is looking for love.
But there are lots of other deals being whispered about as well. Here’s a smattering of the rumors we’ve been hearing lately:
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Three or four years ago, open-source providers enjoyed plenty of attention. Just ask Novell, which more or less reinvented itself thanks to the open-source fairy dust provided by its acquistion of the Suse Linux distribution.
Google insider selling has become so fast and furious over the past month that it's completely off the charts. That's not just a figure of speech. It has LITERALLY gone off the charts- take a look for yourself.
Every summer, I dive into the world on Linux. Last summer it was Suse, before that was Mandrake. I've intermittently used Ubuntu… but without any real faithfulness.
This Summer, I will embark on the journey that is Fedora Core 5.All seems inviting, but I'm sceptical… Since my first stroll down the Linux path, I've seen it grow allot. My current laptop wouldn't even boot the installer on the Mandrake 2004 release… and trying to install GenToo was hell.
However, I've decided to passup on the extreamly easy and the extreamly hard distros… and go for a full FLOSS one. God, I hope this goes well.
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