The word is out on the streets that Google is developing it’s own version of Linux – and some are holding their breath for a possible release of the operating system to the general public.
This article at the Register [Google at work on desktop Linux] reports:
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’.
I am a big fan of Google AND a big fan of Ubuntu (also its sister distro Kubuntu) – but I seriously doubt that Google is willing to invest the effort required to seriously compete in the desktop OS arena. It seems reasonable to assume that Goobuntu is only for the developers who work at Google, as confirmed by a Google employee at Slashdot:
Goobuntu is our internal desktop distribution. It’s awesome, but we’re not going to be releasing it. Unless you work here it wouldn’t work anyway.
My guess is that we won’t be seeing Goobuntu any time soon, if ever. What I am excited about is seeing Google products released for Linux.
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