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- anks329, on 10/10/2007, -1/+392bleh... look at the date: Published Tuesday 31st January 2006 13:46 GMT
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -5/+168God ***** you people who dugg this are stupid, look at the date? Since this posting it's been denied that they're doing it, it's used internally.
- estaticd, on 10/10/2007, -4/+161Buried - Inaccurate.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+95BURY BURY BURY. This is inaccurate, incorrect, and old. Chris DiBona has already clarified this last year. Google, like IBM, won't handle Linux directly. They might use Moko for the G-Phone though.
- aldenhg, on 10/10/2007, -5/+71'Published Tuesday 31st January 2006 13:46 GMT'
Bury this ***** fast and without discretion. - loginx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+62Yeah this is really old, and I clearly recall Google officially explaining that they made their own little ubuntu-based distro for internal use only and had absolutely no plan to distribute it. Burry please.
- DevastatorIIC, on 10/10/2007, -1/+57As others have said, it's only used internally. An awesome screenshot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7747894@N05/530284454/
Google does have its own public Linux repositories though:
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html - Wilddigi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+45I heard Apple is comming out with a phone next year called iPhone
- rhylan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+40i hope not
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34This is old
The worst kind of old
The Ye old kind - DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33Look at the date of the article... It's old and inaccurate.
- cornflakepirate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32Welcome to 2006!!!
- V3X3D, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17There should be a bury squad on digg to protect our interests.
buried - McTendo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17My mouth is laughing but my eyes are crying.
- catmistake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14
http://tinyurl.com/2xc7u3
January 31
"Goobuntu is our internal desktop distribution. It's awesome, but we're not going to be releasing it. Unless you work here it wouldn't work anyway. If you haven't tried ubuntu, you should, I have the regular one running on my laptop and it really is fantastic. I'd say it was debian done right if I wanted to start a debian flame war. Also, know that Google getting into the Red Hat business would be kind of dumb, and it would distract from our moon teleporter and cold fusion [google.com] projects
Chris
--
Co-Editor, Open Sources
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc."
I wonder why it wouldn't work? - jollyholly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Goobuntu is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that Google uses internally. Some have suggested that Google might plan to market the distribution more widely.[1][2][3] While both Google and Ubuntu's creator Mark Shuttleworth have confirmed that Goobuntu exists and is used internally,[4] both have strongly refuted suggestions that Google has any plans to market the operating system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu - kurtkraut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13This was already discussed an dugg: they do have their own distro based in Ubuntu. And they have others based in Red Hat and Gentoo too. But it is only for INTERNAL USAGE. They do not intend to publish Goobuntu.
- zdiggler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13See this is what digg is all about, Too many people who just digg stories just beause it got their favorite keyword in title. 'Google, Linux, etc.
And then there are a tons of Apple fan boys who will digg anything Apple. so far 404 people digg this story @. that means there are 404 or more people just digg stories without reading the story at all for Google. I say about 900 people for the Apple. - Rcdriver, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17No matter how old this is, it will still make the front page.
- sctwp09, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I've lost all faith in digg after seeing that this article made the front page.
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12How can you miss the entire line of comments before replying at the bottom.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15This is old as hell.
I wish Google would actually put out a distro and make it ridiculously user friendly. And if they do, I hope they call it something other than Goobuntu. - jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
- wildsnake, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12In other news, Window's Vista is slated to be released late January 2007.
- Nossie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9There was ... they covered up the whole encryption debate and you lot ousted them :P
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I bet it makes it to the top 10 stories. Like that story the other day about the "why firefox is blocked" site, where someone made a different site at a different url and it was announced the other site at the other url had been hacked. That went all the way to the top despite being debunked in the first comment or two.
- Darkhacker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Yes, it's an unfortunate fact that 99% of the Digg community is completely retarded.
- GeneralGore, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I wonder how many people dugg the people saying this was inaccurate, and then digg the story anyway.
- marcus1060, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You are 100% right.
Buried. - sudarevic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Inaccurate (and old). Buried.
- jlebrech, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13Digg should check for timestamps of articles and refuse to digg them automatically.
Just because digg refuses to re-digg existing digged articles is no reason to "dig" old articles from the past. - ant9821, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Buried. Don't you people read the articles?
- Iwantawii, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"The word Ubuntu means "humanity to others" in several African languages, including Zulu and Xhosa. It's one of the founding principles of post-apartheid South Africa. The origin of the word 'Goobuntu' is not clear, though it does not appear in online Zulu dictionaries."
- ordminute, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6GooBuntu is the desktop Google now uses on their workstations. It's not for sale or redistribution.
- djGentoo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+72006 was the year of the Linux Desktop, eh?
- ozydingo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Thanks you for kicking my respect for Digg down another notch.
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/02/01/goobuntu-analysis-of-a-hoax/
http://www.google.com/search?q=Goobuntu+site%3Awww.google.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a - jp29997, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Agreed! Bury - Inaccurate
- Darkhacker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It really says a lot about the Digg community doesn't it? If it is good news about Ubuntu, Linux, Apple, or Google, it is dugg up blindly. If it is a study showing that Microsoft products are inferior, it is dugg up. About the only things that are buried are articles showing MS in a positive light.
- DesuKN, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Buried for OLD
- ohthehumanity, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4More than likely it would rely heavily on network applications found only on there local intranet.
- Darkhacker, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Most people have at least heard of it. They may no nothing about it, but they have heard of it, just like they know of Windows and Mac. It's hard not to hear about it when it is on the news and you see commercials for servers and such.
- spinchange, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6There already is a ridiculously easy & user friendly linux distro. It's called unbuntu ;-)
- MikeCerm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4For a while, this WAS a big story, until Google announced that Goobuntu does exist, but they just use it as an in-house distro, and won't be releasing it to the public.
The last thing the world needs is yet-another "mainstream" Linux distro. However, I do hope that they start throwing their weight behind Ubuntu, and help speed up development. Ubuntu is probably 4 years away from becoming a meaningful player in the desktop market. If Google really pushed hard enough, they could cut that down to 2 years, and really put the screws to Microsoft. - takeda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You know, when a 68 year old woman tells me that she heard about linux, and she would want me to install it on her computer I think linux is doing fine.
Ok, she called it "nelux" first but she meant linux :) - Comanche, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Buried
- motang, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7More than an year old and this store has been already submitted on Digg.
- aweraw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Linux has gone mainstream..... on servers
IMO, it's only a matter of time before Linux hits the desktop mainstream too. Ubuntu on the desktop (well, I'm using Xubuntu... extra speed) is incredibly slick. On most relatively modern hardware, it's also easy to install.
That said, I've been using Linux for years (on server and desktop)... started back in the late 90's with Slackware - to say it has come a long way since then is the understatement of the century - oogee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3This is old look at the date.....................................................................................................+35 digg
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Holy cow thats old................................................................................................................+104 digg - lowerlogic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3This Comment is sooo SPAM... You should be buried for this...
- desistere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3In other news,
"Digg Users like Sheep" - A study has found that digg users digg popular stories even when they are obviously inaccurate but match their ideological predilections. The study also shows that Digg users are more than 100 times more likely to digg a bad story than to bury a bad story. -
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