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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. Google Google Google Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh Boy, Google is making some kind of program, and we don't even know what it'll be. STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES!

  2. Shitty Linux font rendering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The fonts in those slides look like the usual shitty fonts you get in [insert name of Lunux distro here].

  3. YOUR MOM IS MY OTHER RIDE, BITCH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    get the facts, courtesy of MICRO$OFT!

  4. Google(c) is a problem!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your big problem with Google(c) is that the google's applications in your PC depend from Google(c).

    * Google(c) is a MONOPOLY.
    * ALL the applications that releases Google(c) are exclusively dependent for only Google(c).
    * Google(c) NEVER releases applications independent or that don't depend from Google(c).
    * If Google(c) is bankrupted then your google's applications in your home PC don't work.
    * Google(c) collects massive information from users: gmail.com, mail.google.com, cookies from google's applications, user's data searchs, maps's GPS coordinates, ...
    * your PC and your life need to be online to Google(c)!!!
    * Google(c) is violating the privacy of the users! (privacy means "nothing has to read or access to confidencial prohibited text").

  5. 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)

  6. Stupids Linuxers/Linuxians!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want OFFLINE applications! stupids!!!

    Google has not OFFLINE applications!!!
    Google only has ONLINE applications!!!

  7. 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.