On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
