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Google desktop Linux?
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:54 am
by Wally Balljacker
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31 ... top_linux/
"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'."
Hahahaha, "Goobuntu". They have to do something about the name.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:04 pm
by Judland
Yeah, it was only a matter of time.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:06 pm
by Patrick
Maybe this will be the impetus for them to release linux clients for their software?
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:46 pm
by brakthepoet
The article looks to me like a rework on rumors from early January when Google was supposedly announcing a Google OS at CES. Which, in turn, were all modifications of rumors floating around since Google's IPO in 2004. Google may surprise me, but I think it's unlikely that we will see a Linux-based, BSD-based, or any other type of operating system from them.
I'm also skeptical of anything The Register prints. They've always seemed to me like the Weekly World News of tech sites.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:48 pm
by Patrick
brakthepoet wrote:They've always seemed to me like the Weekly World News of tech sites.
I remember back in 91 when WWN reported that "the alien" had backed President Bush. A week later the alien changed his mind and backed Clinton. The scandal!!!
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:49 pm
by Tsuroerusu
Wally Balljacker wrote:Hahahaha, "Goobuntu". They have to do something about the name.
Yeah no kidding, that name makes it sound like we're talking about something from a dumpster or something!
Patrick wrote:Maybe this will be the impetus for them to release linux clients for their software?
Who knows, maybe they will, maybe they won't. Maybe they'll just released some weird-ass Google version of Ubuntu and try to compete with Microsoft, it's pretty hard to tell what Google are doing these days, one day they say they're not evil, another day they censor Chinese search results and yet another day they talk about contributing back to the community of GNU/Linux which they've pretty much grown up on......
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:06 pm
by CptnObvious999
First they have to get their apps ported to linux unless they only let their programs run on "Goobuntu"
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:34 pm
by Tsuroerusu
CptnObvious999 wrote:First they have to get their apps ported to linux unless they only let their programs run on "Goobuntu"
Kind of like Apple only let OS X Intel run on their hardware, which by the way, might be good for Linux, because if a typical Windows user is to choose between OS X and Linux, I'm pretty sure he'd choose OS X.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:38 pm
by dookiesmack
Why not something like? Slackgoo or Gooware? or Goonatix? LOL...
Actualy I like Dann's suggestion of GooglyEYEos..lol
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:43 pm
by Judland
Or just a catch-all like, GoogleUx
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:45 pm
by dookiesmack
Hey, Now there's a winner
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:46 pm
by CptnObvious999
We all know the best name would be Gentoogle
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:58 pm
by dookiesmack
LOL...Gentoogle sounds like somekind of meat spinner sex act...lol.." Dude I got Gentoogled by Pat today" lol.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:05 pm
by Tsuroerusu
dookiesmack wrote:LOL...Gentoogle sounds like somekind of meat spinner sex act...lol..
Dude, don't get Dann started!
Anyway, GO-UX
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:39 am
by Wally Balljacker
How about "GOOPIS"?