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New Google Apps For Linux Coming

Posted by kdawson on from the bated-breath dept.

techoon writes "The goal of the Google Linux Client Team is to develop Linux desktop applications, such as the official Linux versions of Google Earth and Google Picasa. This team made an interesting splash during a presentation at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which they had kindly hosted at their Mountain View campus. The Google presenters claimed some 'significant accomplishments' and other new Google desktop applications coming out this year for the Linux platform."

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  1. Whats brewing? by ikarys · · Score: 1, Troll

    Perhaps some glinux will be coming out. Simple to use/setup, powerful, and wont have the hardware problems and glitchyness of standard linux distros. (I've used Ubuntu for 6 months as a developer.. and its not quite there yet)

  2. Re:Funny enough, I just installed googleearth... by speaker+of+the+truth · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, that sounds so easy for a non-Linux user. I don't know why more people don't jump over to the OS.

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    Using openSUSE instead of Windows since 9th of October, 2007 and liking it.