Ubuntu as a family

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:41, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 01:39, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > On Monday 22 May 2006 19:00, Pupeno wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 21 de May de 2006 18:47, conor wrote:
> > > > didn't Mr. Shuttleworth express an
> > > > interest in creating a gubuntu, consisting of only free
> > > > software?  Oh wait, that was gnubuntu.
> > >
> > > That is indeed interesting.
> >
> > A few weeks ago, there was some speculation in the trade press that
> > Google was going to bring out its own Linux distribution based on
> > ubuntu, and at least one writer said that it would be named
> > goobuntu.
> > -- cmg
>
> Ah, you have used 'speculation' and 'press' in the same sentence. That
> usually means 'sucked out of the writer's thumb and is as far away
> from reality as you can possibly get while still speaking English'.

Precisely, although I disagree that this stuff comes out of their thumbs. I 
had another part of their anatomies in mind. Remember that these are the same 
guys who used to tell us that Microsoft Bob was the Next Great Thing.

> It definitely means just that in this case. Google do use Ubuntu
> internally, but I wouldn't be surprised if those PhD's were having a
> contest to see who could build a gRedHat or a gGentoo the fastest.

On a more serious note: I know that Google uses Linux extensively in their own 
operations, but do they make any contributions back to the community?

-- cmg