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Google preps own version of Ubuntu
- aston 19y agoEntirely false. And a really old article, too (Jan 2006). Goobuntu is the name of the OS Googlers use internally (if they haven't switched from GHat). I'm not entirely sure if it even counts as a real distro, since they're not really distributing it to anything but new corporate machines. Of all the businesses Google isn't in, OS's are about the ones the furthest from what they care about. If it involves someone computing on their machine rather than Google's, it better be driving search engine hits...
- neilk 19y agoSeconding this. (Except, the old-as-the-hills Red Hat Google desktop is called GRHAT). There are many companies in the Valley that hack up an OS distro for internal use, either on the desktop or in server farms. It's not that big of a deal.
- Elfan 19y agoShuttleworth has shot this rumor down as well if it needed repeating: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/20 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/20