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The Register: Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as ‘Goobuntu.’

Ash’s dumpster-PIII PC runs Ubuntu quite well (email, web, word processing, IM-ing), so I’m a big fan of Ubuntu, having tried a couple other distros with mixed success. Go Ubuntu!

Update: Mat ruins my day and points out in the comments that this rumor has been denied by the Ubuntunians. This raises a very important question: Which one of us is geekier?

Google Video: “You could be eighth-level tonite!”

Computerworld: If you want to avoid having to burn new CDs every few years, use magnetic tapes to store all your pictures, videos and songs for a lifetime.

No one will do this; thus, a generation (at least) of photographic family history vanishes.