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

[prb at lava.net]

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

>> 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.

Jim Thompson wrote:

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

I would, but Red Hat is the one telling us that Linux isn't ready for 
the desktop, and that we should all run Windows, instead. They said it 
rather loudly. http://www.silicon.com/software/os/0,39024651,39116741,00.htm
Granted this was the tail end of 2003, but nothing from Red hat 
indicates that they have changed their position.

>> 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.

You would know more than I do, then. The article is quite vague about 
what Google is actually doing.
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