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Google at work on desktop Linux | |
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| Time: 08:37 EST/13:37 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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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'. It's possible that it's just one of the toys Googleplex engineers play with on Fridays, when they get time off from buffing the search engine code or filtering out entries about Tiananmen Square. | ||
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| #1 By 1401 (69.27.196.125) at 2/1/2006 8:43:21 AM |
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thank god - I'm all over this if it's true
Can you imagine an OS with the power of Google search baked in it? You'd never lose anything ever again. You could search your computer and the entire internet all at once and it would be fast as hell too. Add a Google web browser and Google Talk baked in along with a Google Office and you're golden. |
| #2 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 2/1/2006 9:11:23 AM |
| Chris: Your enthusiam may be genuine, or it may be great sarcasm. I'm a bit thick and can't really tell. Either way, until the product is made available and the feature set is known and proven worthwhile, Goobuntu is no more than vaporware. Google makes its bucks solely from direct advertising and the brokering of advertising for various media. Any Google built OS is likely to produce a revenue stream from ads cleverly and strategically placed throughout the user interface. Do we really want this? Only time will tell if Goobuntu is "testing the waters" vaporware, a me-too product with little value-added, a truly free OS, or an OS peppered with ads. It is unlikly to have any painful effect on Windows or OS X sales. |
| #3 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 2/1/2006 9:17:32 AM |
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I look forward to Google Linux on my desktop.
I look forward to underlined word ads in every StarOffice Document I create. I also look forward to any email I create criticizing human rights abuse in China suddenly disappearing. |
| #4 By 665 (198.51.49.2) at 2/1/2006 9:54:01 AM |
| ....Except it's not true. Google has done some development on Ubuntu for internal use, but they came out today and said they have no plans to distribute it. But it's a headline that's sure to cause excitement... |
| #5 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 2/1/2006 9:56:24 AM |
| #3: Like you give a damn about human rights in China. |
| #6 By 7754 (65.27.90.2) at 2/1/2006 10:46:55 AM |
| I gotta call you on that, too, Parker... Microsoft is doing the same thing. Why are you singling out Google on the China/human rights issue? |
| #7 By 3 (62.253.128.15) at 2/1/2006 10:56:27 AM |
| #5 - of course he does, what are you thinking?? |
| #8 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 2/1/2006 11:46:04 AM |
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I do very much care about human rights in China.
Why are you all giving Google a pass on this issue? I am not forgiving Microsoft on this issue, but Google has a motto of "Don't be evil". I think what they are doing is evil. I have a problem with a company that helps censorship in China but believes passionately in the right of child pornographers to use Google to search for kiddie porn with impunity. I would have more respect if Google chose non-cooperation with the US and Chinese governments instead of just cooperating with China. At least Microsoft and Yahoo are against kiddie porn. Personally I think trade with China should be cut off. But the lefties who worship Bill Clinton are such hypocrites they applauded him when he sold the Chinese military secrets and took payoffs from the Chinese. This post was edited by NotParker on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 at 11:47. |
| #9 By 6859 (206.156.242.39) at 2/1/2006 11:53:16 AM |
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Were I in charge at Google, when the Chinese government made their silly censoring request I would have told them to go jump in a lake. (Actually, I would have been more vulgar and less PC about it, but you get the picture.)
Google, by kow-towing, violated their own motto. Bad Google, no treat for you. |
| #10 By 8062 (70.181.174.185) at 2/1/2006 11:53:27 AM |
| Google doing linux...can you say xunil? |
| #11 By 23278 (12.11.161.5) at 2/1/2006 12:29:03 PM |
| #11 don't you think the people that would be interested in a google linux desktop are the same people that already have everything google would include or integrate? I think they would. |
| #12 By 37 (67.37.29.142) at 2/1/2006 1:56:03 PM |
| If it was anything like the Google Pack, I would rather go back to Windows 95. |
| #13 By 8062 (70.181.174.185) at 2/1/2006 2:06:30 PM |
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#13-hahahah...yep!
Me too. |
| #14 By 8062 (70.181.174.185) at 2/1/2006 2:06:51 PM |
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#13-hahahah...yep!
Me too. |
| #15 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 2/1/2006 3:08:30 PM |
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Fill in the blank <Google> is going to, " take on Microsoft in its core business." lol
Gee, where have we heard that before . . . whenever their is slow news day! Meanwhile, let's not get our panties in a wad about a little censorship for the Chinese people, regardless of who is doing it. I mean after all, if you haven't got excited about Mao and his gangsters snuffing out 70 million human beings (at least 30+ million were simply starved to death) what's a little censorship between trading partners/companies? The second most murderous tryant in human history, Stalin said, " A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." This post was edited by jdhawk on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 at 15:08. |
| #16 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 2/1/2006 5:00:19 PM |
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#17 "Where did you learn that Mao has killed 70 million people?"
http://arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/05/bocha105.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/06/05/botop.html "Mao is thought to have been responsible for some 70 million deaths in purges and authorised famines. Since the victims were anonymous Chinese without friends in the West, it seemed churlish for outsiders to make much of the matter, except when the Great Helmsman ventured outside his own borders and began to massacre Tibetans, as he did in 1960." #17 "Do you know who stole all the money that could be used to feed Chinese people?" Mao, the Gang of Four and Generals in the Peoples Army. |
| #17 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 2/1/2006 5:39:23 PM |
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who said computers and politics don't mix?
all i would say is that you guys remind me of the palestinians where everything is politics. google and ms are about something much more important than politics. these guys are about profits. wait hold the presses, google and ms do stuff to make money. what a laugh. by the way, wouldn’t the open source community see google’s branding of a “free” os as a sell out? |
| #18 By 9589 (66.56.129.233) at 2/2/2006 12:29:01 AM |
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The unimaginable thing about the above tiffs is that you all are mad at the search companies not China!
And, of course, I could have bet a month's pay that someone would argue that the world "greatest" slaughterers - China's leadership, has done no harm and to top it off its those other guy's fault! hhf, you missed the tryant Mao, but Hey! there are plenty of tryants and their countries out there. Go visit one and report back. Stop depending on the drivel that the NYT or Hollyweird laddles to you. Meanwhile, old dog, I was an investor of Microsoft until a couple of years ago when their stock's price was cut in half over the bogus monopoly charges by our government (by the way, it has never recovered from that time). But, while Microsoft is a great company with terrific products that I make my living using, it is hard to move a stock with a 10 billion share float (either up or down). If I was Microsoft I would put every dime into buying back shares to reduce that float. That they are not, tells me that their cash hoard is yielding greater returns invested elsewhere. Then there is the fact that their revenues and profits are only growing between 8 and 10% and their P/E is 26. Finally, there is that "thing" with that "country" aka the EU. Those are three good reaons to employ my investment dollars elsewhere (for the last year in oil and gold). |
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