Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 8th Jul 2009 18:34 UTC, submitted by rlem6983
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: Why Ubuntu? Why not ChromeOS?
by Wowbagger on Thu 9th Jul 2009 03:59
in reply to "Why Ubuntu? Why not ChromeOS?"
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Yes, but Google are already using Ubuntu (actually their own branded version called Goobuntu) internally and about 40% of the Google employees are using it. So why shouldn't they leverage that rather than putting out yet another distro?
I hope it'll be Ubuntu or debian based still...
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2008-04-18
So this guy is saying that Google shouldn't create yet another Linux distro but help Ubuntu get more market share because there is too much fragmentation in Linux already.
A few years ago, before Ubuntu even existed, Mandriva was by far the most popular Linux desktop. Applying the author's logic a few years back, Shuttleworth should have never created Ubuntu. Instead, he should've used his financial power to help Mandriva become more popular.
Why exactly Ubuntu? Because Shuttleworth spends more money on advertising? That doesn't make Ubuntu a better Linux distro, it makes it just more popular. So I'd rather see a better Linux distro become THE Linux.