The register has a typically acidic and misinformed article about Google Linux … which I felt it was worth commenting on ..
First of all, although I appreciate the acid tone and the picking on Google’s evil cooperation with China’s totalitarian government … and I did chuckle at the Ubunto name joke (“The origin of the word ‘Goobuntu’ is not clear, though it does not appear in online Zulu dictionaries”) ... the article is just wrong!
Yes, the Goobuntu.com domain has been registered by a a Cuban portal. But I doubt Google will need to rename anything, because the actual name is gubuntu which, as you can see, already points to ubuntu.com.
If you recall, Google has their own internal distributed file system, and they need development PCs that can hook up to that (which means Linux). Given that GRedHat has never been introduced outside the company, I can’t imagine why (apart from the insatiable need to drive traffic to their website by writing about Google and Microsoft) anyone would even speculate that Google might release their internal GUbuntu Linux distribution…
Maybe it’s escaped The Registrar’s notice, but Google’s not exactly focused on Linux as a platform … in fact, they don’t have a single (external) app that runs there…
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Goobuntu.com registered by a Cuban Portal?? Is that true? How did you kown that? A??A??A??
You’re wrong. There’s a google linux dstribution.
Wow, gee, I’m wrong? Wait are you sure?
You seem to have swung by with no links to back you up, and here it is a whole year later and there are no public releases. Yeah. So anyway … people, please don’t waste your time spamming the old posts.
The only new news is, the domains are both parked on advertising now, and the only way to get a Google Linux distro is still in a Google Enterprise Search Box.
They do have a linux version of Picasa…
and Google Earth…
They do now … a year later
its not a native linux program tho