Re: Ubuntu in the news: "Cosmonaut takes on Windows’ global reach "

[Corey Burger]

On 1/22/06, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A couple of interesting quotes (facts?)  in there:
> >
> > "Estimates put the number of computers running Ubuntu at up to
> > 6-million and doubling every eight months."
> LOL, I love statistics ;-)
>
> > "Google has developed its own version of Ubuntu, called Goobuntu.
> > Shuttleworth says he is in talks with the city of Munich about
> > creating an edition for them."
>
> Now _those_ are interesting little bombshells..
> If Google were to make a desktop distro I would have to be a debian
> based distro for sure... _if_..
>
> The Munich thing is very interesting, I had though they were one-eyed
> SuSE, and I've begun hearing rumours that the big Munich switch isn't
> going as well as originally planed (not failing but not on schedule)
>
> Any chance the SABDFL might expand on this a bit? :-)

Nah, Munich is all debian. Likely due to Novell buying SuSE.

http://news.com.com/Debian+wins+Munich+Linux+deal/2100-7344_3-5689003.html

Corey