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Goobuntu – Google’s desktop operating system?

January 31, 2006 by in Random,Tech with 6 Comments

A Google / Linux distribution? The rumors of a possible Google desktop operating system may very well be materializing for the general public.

Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business – desktop software.

A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as ‘Goobuntu’.

Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, but declined to supply further details, including what the project is for.

Any thoughts or concerns regarding Goobuntu?

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  • chris

    This could make linux more popular to people who know nothing about it. Also doesnt google already use its own operating system in its offices?

  • http://maique.com/blog/?p=873 goobuntu at quintal do xanato

    [...] [via uneasysilence] [...]

  • chris
  • Derek

    Also doesnt google already use its own operating system in its offices?

    well goobuntu could be developed for in house use by google. who knows. maybe a perpetual beta?

  • http://dmotion.wordpress.com/2006/02/01/goobuntu-googles-new-operating-system/ dmotion » Blog Archive » Goobuntu, Google’s New Operating System?

    [...] “A Google / Linux distribution? Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, but declined to supply further details, including what the project is for.” They should do it. They should release it in April. I think that anything that Google touches takes off–or goes down…like the Google Stock whose, “price plunged $36.68, or 8.5 percent, to $395.98 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.” Regardless Google is going to do something and it’ll be good–hopefully. [...]

  • http://maique.com/blog/ maique

    google blogoscoped also had this news but it seems they’ve got a reply from google that says they’re not releasing it.

    http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-31-n47.html

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