Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 8th Jul 2009 18:34 UTC, submitted by rlem6983
Google Google's recent move of revealing the Chrome OS to a suspecting public has put a great many people on alert. Some say it's a major privacy issue, some say Google oughtn't to become more and more monopolistic, while others think that the wide array of popular Linux distributions shouldn't become even more fragmented than it already is. "Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive. Instead of treading its own path, Google should have sought to leverage the stellar work already carried out by Mark Shuttleworth and his band of merry coders and tied its horse to the Ubuntu cart."
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RE[5]: No thanks Ubuntu.
by Lunitik on Thu 9th Jul 2009 23:27 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: No thanks Ubuntu."
Lunitik
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2005-08-07

Thing is, no distro these days takes longer than around 30 seconds to boot... so what is so special about upstart? Ubuntu weren't even the group that pioneered faster bootup, it was mostly Red Hat and Novell, and Ubuntu kinda came along for the ride.

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