[LUAU] Is Google going to create its own Linux distro?

[Jim Thompson]

On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:26 AM, prb at lava.net wrote:

> Matt Darnell wrote:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
>> Everything Google has touched, turned to gold, except the  
>> video....that
>> sucks
>
> Actually, my experience with Google video has been with links  
> submitted via Digg, and it wasn't too bad. That was all free stuff,  
> of course.
>
> Personally, I have trouble imagining that Google would want to get  
> into the Desktop OS business. Ubuntu isn't bad, but the only way  
> anyone will profit is if they sell computers in volume with Linux  
> pre-installed.

Try telling that to RedHat, or any of the other linux distro vendors.

> As the article states, one possibility is a version of Ubuntu  
> tweaked for internal use. That would make more sense.

But they wouldn't go to all the trouble of re-skinning then.