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

[Julian Yap]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:14 -1000, prb at lava.net wrote:
> Jim Thompson wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Which basically has done very little.
> 
> > Novel (SUSE) has one too.
> 
> Indeed, one can argue that Suse's is a more serious product, but 
> adoption  has been limited.

If you want numbers.  Tom Welch, CTO of Linspire said that last quarter
they shipped 50,000 copies of Linspire at Frys alone
(http://www.tposscon.com/audio.php).  Most of these would come
pre-installed with the PCs.

Linspire is a desktop only distribution of Linux.