[Cialug] Goobuntu

[Nathan C. Smith]

If a "Google Linux" desktop worked like linspire does Everyone on AOL would
probably want to switch.  Simply brainless.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hilton [mailto:chris129 at cs.iastate.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:24 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Goobuntu


http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060131-6087.html

It's already been denied.  I imagine it's the OS they use internally.
There's 
a whole nightmare in shipping something like an OS that I imagine Google 
wants to avoid.  That nightmare is called:  Idiot users and the call centers

they think they need.

As much as I'd love to see Google push Linux I doubt they believe they can
do 
much for it.  It'd only be marginally easier to tell someone google linux 
rocks verse saying ubuntu rocks.  Seeing really is believing; of course 
getting people to see is always hard.  And I haven't seen Google make any 
incredible marketing campaigns of their own yet (although they're helpful to

other companies to the same end).

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 16:30, David Champion wrote:
> Google doesn't have an OS. Google does have an OS. Make up your mind 
> already!
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
>
> -dc
>
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