Ubuntu seems to be a cleaned up version of Debian. As pointed out by Erast, NexentaOS might be an easy port for Google. Users and Google should not care about the underlying OS, but only about the interface.
Peter On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:22 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:38 -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:08 -0800, peter murray wrote: > > > http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/ > > > > > > Would it not be cool if we could get google to use OpenSolaris instead of > > > linux. > > > > Now, think about NexentaOS for the moment... This is exactly what they > > come up with, i.e. Ubuntu based GNU/Linux. It shouldn't take much for > > Google to adjust their plans and adopt NexentaOS. > > Except Google has a strong Linux based internally - and it seems like > most of the people who may be part of the desktop team [Trow, > Chris, ...] have been running and advocating Linux for years ;) > > A tough sell, though perhaps not impossible...Interestingly, around the > time of the Google bounties, we [the GNOME project] were trying to think > of new ways that we could incorporate Google technology into the desktop > in the hopes that they may well want to adopt it in the future - it > would be nice to see them adopt GNOME as a desktop from a personal point > of view. > > Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to > become the Linux distribution of choice? From every conversation I've > had with Jeff, he indicates they're not a development team [1] and > they've only been doing some smart integration. An interesting marketing > study at the very least. We have almost all the technology in Solaris > too, we probably just need to do a better job at a) integrating it b) > making it look good c) talking about it. > > > Glynn > > [1] Outside of some of the things like Launchpad, Malone, Rosetta, ... > -- Sun Retail Grid Sr.Java Architect Main : 001 212-558-9038 PAGER : AIM: retepmurray _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
