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

[Jim Thompson]

On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:39 PM, prb at lava.net wrote:

>> 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.

Redhat introduces its "Desktop" product in mid 2004.

http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/04/11/06/1831257.shtml? 
tid=111&tid=116
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5205117.html

https://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhel/compare/client/#tableD

Novel (SUSE) has one too.

>>> 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.

Oh sure, because nobody knows what Google is doing (it may even be a  
fake), but take a gander at these:

http://www.generation-nt.com/images/biblio/soft_os/000000006925.png

http://images.google.com/images?q=google%20OS

Jim