Google Os Goobuntu Google OS Goobuntu

Google has confirmed it is preparing its own distribution of desktop Linux, called Goobuntu, based on the popular Ubuntu distribution, which in turn is based on Debian.

The announcement caused speculations that Google would move against the Microsoft monopoly on the desktop.

Sadly, this is not the case. Google has released a statement saying there are no plans to release the badly named distribution outside the Google complex. "[We] use Ubuntu internally but have no plans to distribute it outside of the company.â

Rumors about alternative browsers, such that Google is supposedly working on have been popping up about one per week, perhaps supported by the company's obvious interest in the desktop. Projects like Desktop Search, Google Talk, Google Earth are however much, much less complex than a full fledged desktop operating system, even if it is built on another.

Even though we won't see Goobuntu on anyone's desktop, Ubuntu has only to win with this endorsement by one of the biggest names in technology, and can probably only stand to gain from having Google engineers working on their code.

 

Source --> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-OS-17307.shtml

 

Well, they probably use Ubuntu, with slight modifications, to suit ther own needs. I think its a good distro, altough I prefer Fedora Core. But anything is better than M$ and windows.

Weel google is in making a war with Microsoft. I will wait for the result but I thing linux will never substitute Windows. This is my point of view.Microsoft is more powerfull (more money) and Windows is the excelence applications of world computers.

i like linux...linux is way better than any os microsoft has or will put out but there is the money issue...linux just isnt known to a broad audience and isnt advertised or anything...if more people knew bout linux and its capabilities i believe that it would gain a stronger foothold in the os world...but the fact is that microsoft is too big right now...they are controlling the industry (so to speak) and with the majority of people in the world not knowing how to use computers (in terms of advanced usage ) and they dont care what os they have as long as it works...and it just happens to be that windows is the only os they know about...i asked my dad last night to name all the operating systems he knows (he knows what an os is from the old days) and he said 3.1, 95, 98, me, and xp...i asked him if he was sure...and he said jup thats all of them...so i told him bout all the unix based os's and apples os's and he just kinda wondered off...people just dont care that much yet...pretty soon everything will be based on computers and they will be forced to give a da**

Yea, that's my only hope for this 'goobuntu' is that google will force linux into the public eye much more then it is currently. Everything google does seems to get alot of publicity so if they release a direct competetor to microsoft's flagship, it'll get alot of press too. It probably won't be anything revolutionary but it will hopefully make some people stop and wonder what this "linux" word they keep hearing is all about.

Hold on - what are they trying to do with this 'Goobuntu'?? It's just another OS I will never use (for the mean time) and ... it's not going to be distributed, in an act of resistance against M.Soft or other OS companies.Anyway, did you know that plagiarism is a crime? It's "stealing data". Psh.. everyone wants loyalty and honor, hmm? I am forced to follow the rules...

My thought on the first post:So?Tell me why I should care if Google release a modified Ubuntu. I hope I don't sound too arrogant, but it wouldn't be that great. It would be Ubuntu packaged with all of Googles products. Sure, it may have a few tweeks to make it better, but basically it would just be like Google pack. Its a pack of Google products to get you to use thier products.I mean, it would shove Linux into the public eye, which is overall a good thing for Google to do, but, I mean, no one will use it. If they do, it will put Ubuntu out of business with everyone just downloading Google's supposed better version, when really its just a bunch of software they've deved. Google can use it if they want... Do us a favour though, don't release it.My two cents.

I can't see it putting ubuntu out of business, since their only revenue comes from their support service (I assume) which is to enterprise level clients who would know the difference if google actually just bundled in their stuff. Now if google actually revamps it alot and fixes the handful of things keeping it from being a perfect desktop OS, all the better.

I didn't mean put out of business in a money or business sense, I mean no one would download Ubuntu from their site anymore, just the Google tweeked version. I wouldn't mind if Google and Ubuntu teamed up. That would be awesome.

Lol how insanely quickly is google taking over the world. First it's a search engine, next it's an email provider, next it's providing chat services, map features, now they are creating an operating system.Go google!

I personally never liked the Ubuntu Linux distros. I love Suse Linux 10.0 and would use it all the way instead of Microsuck if it wasn't for the fact that it didn't support my usb wireless routers so i had to keep microuck . Until my drivers are realized.

Here's some more followup I found on this:

Mark Shuttleworth, president of Ubuntu, denies the rumors of Google developing a comercial version of Ubuntu personalized by them, a.k.a Goobuntu.

 

According to him, straigh from his personal blog, Google uses almost every Linux Distribution there is, he even jokes about posibly beeing also a Goohat, Goobian, and some other combinations of the word Google together with the names of the other Linux Distributions.

 

He also talks about the Google people submiting alot of patches for Ubuntu.

 

 

Hm, I'm kinda sad to hear that, would have been interesting to see what they did with it. Not that I'm overly surprised that it was all just a hyped rumor, but still, would have been an entertaining ride heh.

I don't think Google need to release an OS. What is in it for them? All they get is a war with Microsoft. I think they're quite happy building their own empire without upsetting too many people. And let's face it: their search engine is by so far the best it's not funny, gmail shook up the online mail game, and google earth and google scholar... well they're fun.I like Google, and I like Linux. It makes me happy to know that they're using all different OS's (like you'd expect). Makes me think they're nice geeks just like me.

it's a combination between two of the best, google as one of the best search engines with all its new features, gmail with approx. 3 gb inbox and growing, google earth with all its benefits, froogle, google groups, chat, talk...etc. and Ubuntu which is one of the best linux distro's, it becoming more popular day by day, it's the best laptops support in all linux distro's.this partnership gives both of them a lot of power, and export worries to microsoft which is now in a very small corner waiting for a hole that it can pass from it to the whole world with a new bubble that can give it some success since all the others growing more faster, i think this distro if it comes to the reach of the users will be the most popular one in no time.p.s: I'm an ubuntu user