[Tfug] Google Linux OS

[Jordan Aberle]

We will see, Google has some very smart people, I'm excited to see where
this might go.
Another Google OS article:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/google.chrome.os/index.html
 <http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/google.chrome.os/index.html>

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll make a prediction:
>
> The back end of it will be awesome, but it will be set up to do apps
> "in the cloud" to such a degree that people won't want to use it
> without either heavy tweaking or a fork off of it.
>
> Google has been developing in-house Linux variants never seen by the
> outside world for a LONG time - it's what all their search engine
> stuff is based on.  So if they really dig into that knowledge base for
> a new user-level distro, it could end up being as rich a "source
> distro" as Debian.
>
> It's a fair bet it'll be very different from anything seen before -
> unless they DON'T dig into that internal stockpile and just "roll
> their own Ubuntu-oid", which would be downright depressing.
>
> Jim
>
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