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- TVisdoG, on 10/11/2007, -19/+127Yeah, that would be pretty sweet. Then maybe they could integrate it with their new office suite and online email service, and then maybe throw in a browser. Then they could start shipping the software bundles on new computers, and maybe offer the manufacturers "incentives" not to ship anyone else's bundles. Man, this seems really familiar.
- SniperXPX, on 10/11/2007, -23/+108I must admit, it would be pretty sweet for Google to release an operating system that is Linux based.
- fasda, on 10/11/2007, -4/+73But if google made an OS then it would be in beta for a decade before they released a finished product.
- digitaltrav, on 10/11/2007, -4/+64I think I disagree here. Google is successful because they know the money and future is in the cloud. Their entire business seems to support that theory. Everything they're doing is a web service or communications innovation.
What's left on the desktop side of things? We've been using the same basic "core" features since 1995. They've certainly added some polish, shine, and eye candy .. but in reality .. not much new. - c130commnav, on 10/11/2007, -3/+46I like google and it's products but why on earth do we need another Linux distribution what is wrong with Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.. distros are just the packaging really they are all linux at the core. Google has already said they don't have any plans on making an OS anyways
- gahal, on 10/11/2007, -6/+46But a google beta is generally equivalent to version 2.3 for most companies.
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31"What the world needs now is Google Linux"
That would be sweet, but it doesn't crack my top thousand needs for the world. - Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -8/+36You mean, like Linux?
- geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28That was before Microsoft went all ballistic on them. Now Google just wants to see Microsoft hurt. And the best way for them to hurt is to add fuel to the only flame capable of burning Microsoft: Linux.
I don't feel Google needs to release an Operating System, and I really think they understand this too. Instead, why don't they just encourage and develop applications and solutions for Linux and make it a first-class Operating System citizen? Quite frankly, this is more of what we want anyways, as Google is a good leader, and lots of people will follow. - archiesteel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+27Google PCs running Google Linux would be pretty sweet.
Linux is ready for the masses, it just needs to be packaged for them. Dell is giving it a shot, maybe others will follow.
BTW there are *quite a few* for-profit Linux distributions. RedHat Linux, SuSE and Novell Desktop are a few examples. The notion that an OS must be closed-source to be popular does not seem to be based on any logical premises... - Goosemaster, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28stupid article.
- Dmitrik, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28What's wrong with being in Beta?
Google's Beta is a lot better that the "final" version of some companies... - consonance, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23"What the world needs now is Google Linux"
Translation: "What Linux needs now is Rich Uncle Pennybags" - geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17You forgot "AMAZING!!!!!!" and "[PICS]".
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -46/+62No. Google is a profit-driven corporation. Hands off our Linux.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -15/+29Dugg me down but I don't think that the world needs a Google Linux distro.
- JeffH, on 10/11/2007, -22/+36@smartass
The fact that there's next to no for-profit Linux organizations is probably what's holding back Linux the most. If there were a way to make creating a Linux distro an actual business venture, it wouldn't be stuck where it is now. - Dmitrik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14I doubt they're for sale.
- tehAleksandrRox, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11That settles it. We'll raid the Google HQ to steal a copy of Goobuntu.
- demonotaku, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12I just wanna know what open sorcerers are. Do they shoot Linux disks out of their hands instead of magic missiles or something?
- deadowl, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12@JeffH, there's a lot of people using Linux commercially... ex. RHEL.
- sp1nm0nkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Nonononono! Google isn't releasing a Linux desktop. The article said that there are a bazillion distributions out there, and the last thing we need is people duplicating other people's work and fighting for the desktop, each with separate bug lists, each trying to do the exact same thing. The only thing that might happen is Google could support another distro. Maybe.
- JeffH, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8That'd be suicide before it even got off the ground. Google may have tons of manpower and immense talent to it's companies name, but not enough to create a new OS from scratch with no basis. If they start at square one, then it's pretty much garunteed that the OS would be unusable to most for the first few releases (because of drivers), etc.
- geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7One wouldn't buy the OS, one would buy the company developing the OS (Canonical). While it would certainly be a coup for Google to buy Canonical, I can't see it happening any time soon; Shuttleworth is an opportunist and a very smart man, but Ubuntu is more-or-less his baby, he isn't going to want to yield to anyone... at least not for a whole hell of a lot of money (_billions_; he sold his last company for half a billion to Verisign).
Ubuntu itself is a community-driven project. You can't really buy or sell the community, as much as some companies would like to have you think you can. - donnyburnside, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Something like that, yeah.
- jacks0n, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7@ JeffH
Err, most of the top linux distros *are* for profit. Canonical (even though they're not making a profit yet), Red Hat, Novell, Linspire, etc. Their revenue model is mostly based on support though. - dAbReAkA, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6stop feeding google with ideas for taking over the world.. they almost have it all now..
- climatewarrior, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Maybe google will finally restore the balance of the force.
- daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Yep like safari for instance.
- Hush, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Not in my workplace dude. For every hottie there's two hags. I'm not sure of the exact math, but I am pretty sure that I'd need a better hottie/hag ratio. One hag topless can damage you for a long time I think.
- javaroast, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7@jesusgaytard
The asking price for an OS such as Ubuntu??? Why it's free of course. - thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I don't know.
I don't think I want to see target text ads running at all times in my linux machine. - TheSwashbuckler, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Never happen. Google isn't interested in producing an operating system. They're about making the OS irrelevant by making their applications run in the browser. The browser is their platform...
- TKDWILSON, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9"""""""""""The fact that there's next to no for-profit Linux organizations is probably what's holding back Linux the most. If there were a way to make creating a Linux distro an actual business venture, it wouldn't be stuck where it is now."""""""""""""""
Linux is far from "stuck". If anything, Linux is gaining ground in usability in comparison to Windows and I bet in the next few years will surpass them. It is heading that way. Even when that happens, it will take some time to win people over to linux, but it will happen. That is why Microsoft is SOoooo scared now and making up fake patents that linux "violates". - jgruber, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Google/Ubuntu combo could standardize many things... (hurts me to say that being a long term Fedora guy) Just standardize so we can get all the crappy things about the Linux desktop worked out. My Linux desktops were always way ahead of my Windows machines for 20% of the what they do and 90% behind my Windows machines for the 5% of the thing things I needed to get done. Even now once a day I start my virtual XP for some stupid task.
Actually what I want to see is Adobe come out with a Linux appliance PC 'tuned' for their line of content generation applications. They could compete with Apple again for the real high-end stuff. They could bundle with a Dell for very specific hardware support, out-perform Vista or Mac OS by optimizing for a GPU/CPU/file system, and make a lot of video people very happy. They could start with any Linux distro they want. (heck FreeBSD with ZFS for all I care) Make "special" 6 way montior build outs and crazy things for $$$$$$. Back to SGI like workstations for high-end graphics/video work. If it's an appliance.. business loves that! - tehAleksandrRox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Like Rocky Balboa or lead based Paint!
- mhearne, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Why is that a problem? It was also mentioned in the article as a problem since there are 350+ different variations now.
If there were only one type of Linux, like the other two major players, then individual development would stop, and we would lose control over our OS. The way it is now, we can tailor our machines to behave exactly as we want them to.
Really, there are only three different major varieties of Linux; .rpm-based, .deb-based and completely compiled from source (Wow!). There have been thousands of these threads, Microsoft feels threatened by us, and we just really don't care. If Mr. Gates hadn't gotten so heavy-handed around five years ago, he wouldn't be losing so many customers. - GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+395% of the world does not run IE. 15% of Americans use Firefox and America has one of the lowest uptakes on the planet. In some areas of Europe it's market share is as high as 35%. Also Jack Bauer uses KDE.
Finally FOSS is not about anti-corporatism. There are some that want to make it that but they're quite frankly bat ***** insane since the GPL in all it's forms allows people to profit from the code. If they want an anti-corporate software movement then they should use a no-profit license rather than a Free software or OSS license. Even then you can't stop people charging for services rendered like they do with FOSS. - slicedoranges, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4If it ran my Windows games at the speed they're actually supposed to run at, and everything wasn't needlessly complicated, I'd use it.
- ednark, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Article states a problem :
"It seems one problem Linuxers have is that there are over 350 different flavours of the OS."
Article propsed a solution :
Another flavor of linux, "Google Linux anyone?"
Wait... what? - Dmitrik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Then why don't you submit them and we'll digg them?
Ranting is worse that shutting it up. So please don't do it :-). - GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3There are no issues with patents from MS. Do you really think a company as big as Google is afraid that MS might sue on undefined patent violations, we aren't talking about a struggling to break even corporation like Linspire or Xandros or a corporation who's profit tumbled by $100m like Novells did last year (only SUSE improved it's margin). There is no real threat and the only reason these companies signed with MS is because MS openly paid them a lot of money to do so. Novell made hundreds of millions out of the deal and the others gained enough to break even for a bit. MS are going to extract money from people like LG, they only make deals with distros to try and give credibility to their claims, hence they pay them to take the deal.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4What the world needs right now is less of Linux and less of these stupid articles.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4You can't buy a private company without their consent...
That would be like a property developer handing you a check and bulldozing your house for a mall. - Samurailink3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3One word: Goobuntu.
- ecorona, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I would MUCH rather see Google financially back the development of linux to a really large degree. This money should be devoted to certain parts of the linux development process. If Google wants their money to go only towards certain features, then they should be allowed to do that.
My guess is that Google would target the features that would make linux stand out much more when compared to windows XP or (yuck!) Vista. - Patrick_, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Ha, Google Linux? Who needs another Linux distro? I'm tired of all of the flavors.
It's time someone _really_ gets creative and writes their own OS, based on nothing but an idea in their head.
Of course, that's too much work, isn't it? - archiesteel, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8"Obviously Linux is made for the common user"
Despite your sarcasm, you can't logically deduce the quality of a product from its popularity. Linux has a market share similar to that of OS X (around 2%), and yet you wouldn't go around and argue that OS X is clearly not ready for the common user...
Instead at lashing out at things you don't understand, you should realize that we *all* benefit from a diverse OS ecosystem. But go ahead and hide behind the big monopoly so that you can feel bigger yourself... - lopla, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6My friend at Google says they are working on a quantum entangled OS (QEOS), I don't know all the details but it allows your OS to exist in multiple dimensions and work from anywhere connected to the internet without an internet connection (the entagled data is housed at google which is connected to the net & your bit of entangled data is able to roam anywhere within 5 light years).
- GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Google already have an OS. 99% of their desktops at the Googleplex run a modified version of Ubuntu. I'm not sure what they run on the server though, probably Debian since they have the resources for self support.
Google are also already a big contributor to OSS. -
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