Saturday, February 18, 2006
Google confirms
According to the register.com - 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.
It could be for wider deployments on the company's own desktops, as an alternative to Microsoft, but still for internal use only.
But it is also very possible that Google plans to distribute it to the general public, as a free alternative to Windows. Then watch the levels of viruses for Linux explode.
