Google Working on Desktop Linux

paulmac84 writes "The Register reports that Google is working on a version of Ubuntu, known internally as Goobuntu. Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project, but declined to supply further details, including what the project is for. Is Google about to release this as an alternative to Windows?" Update: 02/01 00:11 GMT by SM: chrisd is the first among many to point out that this is just more fodder from the Google rumor mill and isn't something they are currently planning to release.

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Re:Google OS

[robnauta]

Having such a hot and well known company pick up Linux is very good.

Years ago Novell picked up Linux. Companies like Redhat picked up Linux. A few years ago IBM picked up Linux bigtime. What good has come out of that ? It may be good for themselves, but it has gives almost nothing back to Linux.

Besides, Linux zealots shun capitalism anyway. When Redhat was free, people shouted rpm is a great system, then Redhat became big and people shouted rpm's are evil and switched to alternatives. Any company that gets too closely involved with Linux will get burned, and become massively impopular. People seem to shun solidly engineered products and years of experience, and switch to the newest and latest obscure fad distributions that are released by some drunken geeks in a dorm room, like Ubuntu.