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Novell/SUSE Prime for Aquisition?
Ho Kooshy Fly writes "Supposedly Novell/SUSE looks like a good buyout target now. The likes of the obvious, IBM and the less obvious Cisco might be interested in integrating in the new Novell/SUSE company into their portfolio." Lucent, AT&T, and HP are also mentioned as possible buyers, but it's important to remember that it's all still just speculation.
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By Bruce Willis in his next movie.
I've gotta say, CowboyNeal is probably the best Slashdot editor. His editorial comments are actually usually interesting or otherwise add something to the story.
And so far CowboyNeal posted every story that's appeared in the last nine hours... they better be paying him well for this. I know the trolls make fun of him, but hey, they're trolls, so who gives a shit?
Good luck. Try getting out more.
It's saturday night and I am building Gentoo. I need a girlfriend badly. Unfortunately I am an ugly dork with mild acne.
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Poll: 75% of Palestinians support Haifa restaurant attack
90% of Russians support bombing Chechnya back to the stone age. 85% of Americans thought Saddam was either largely or somewhat responsible for 9/11 as recently as six months ago. One idiot thinks that a simplistic isolated statistic condems an entire people.
Respond or Ignore! Don't mod down.
Bullshit. I've seen the other responses to your sig and they invariably get mod'd offtopic. Anyone modding this response offtopic should mod your original post down the same way for starting it.
I looked it up once and found out that the pollster responsible for this is the brother of the (assassinated by Israel) founder of Islamic Jihad. The poll also claimed that 85% of Palestinians supported mutual cessation of violence. Of course, the twit never bothered to respond to this despite claiming to want a dialogue, clearly he's just doing it to get a rise out of people. Teenagers are often like that...
So the analysts, the industry players and the various IT journalist whores are making news again. The ground level tech savvy linux user couldnt give a rats arse anyhow.
Lets have a look at my desktop:
GNU toolchain - no major linux player backing
various system daemons - no major linux player backing
postfix - no major linux player backing
gimp - no major linux player backing
sodipodi - no major linux player backing
windowmaker - no major linux player backing
mozilla - no major linux player backing
abiword - no major linux player backing
xpdf - no major linux player backing
pfaedit - no major linux player backing
cdrecord - no major linux player backing
mplayer - no major linux player backing
pan - no major linux player backing
gaim - no major linux player backing
So we lose GNOME and KDE that where adopted by RedHat and SuSE respectively in order to break into the lucrative MS WIndows controlled corporate desktop market, good riddance I say. (avoiding long posting on that subject, suffice to say that as a UI designer by trade Im underwhelmed with both projects) The only thing that might get impacted is the Linux kernel itself, but 2.6.x seems to be more than most desktops will ever need. And much driver development is done by volunteers, so my next linux unfriendly sony vaio laptop will be supported soon enough.
I think we should all surf over to the Linux from Scratch (LFS) homepage and get cracking with our own personalised from scratch GNU-linux installation. We might lose some of the hype and clueless techno groupie IT journalists in the process.