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By hans007 on 2/1/2006 2:15:45 AM , Rating: 2
a google OS would legitimize ubuntu as an OS to the rest of the world. It would bring people to linux. it would unite open source.

yeah that is about all. It is support from a huge player.

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By Saist on 2/1/2006 2:35:13 AM , Rating: 2
Problem is, it wouldn't.

Ubuntu itself has been openly hostile to the Debian movement, often times intentionally breaking compatibility. Ubuntu's past has also been a large source of controversy over whether or not the Distrobutions in the DCCA should use Ubuntu kernel sources instead of sources provided by Mepis from Debian repositories ( )

Google supporting Ubuntu officially would create a firestorm inside the Debian communities, and that's not even considering how the RPM based distrobutions would react.

No. It wouldn't unite open source, it'd just tick everybody off who already is heavily involved.

Now, Google joining the DCCA and distributing it's own Debian based system... that would probably be a much better turn out for the Debian Distros, although again RPM based distro's wouldn't be very happy.

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