Re: [LUAU] Is Google going to create its own Linux distro?

2006-02-01 Thread Jim Thompson
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Julian Yap wrote: From Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager @ Google: Goobuntu is our internal desktop distribution. It's awesome, but we're not going to be releasing it. Unless you work here it wouldn't work anyway. If you haven't tried ubuntu, you

Re: [LUAU] Is Google going to create its own Linux distro?

2006-02-01 Thread Tim Newsham
orkut (http://www.orkut.com/), on the other hand. Who actually has an orkut account and uses it? Then again, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't orkut the only Google site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_services_and_tools) built on ASP.net? These things tend to take off in one

Re: [LUAU] Is Google going to create its own Linux distro?

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Darnell
On 2/1/06, Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps someone with a graphics touch will skin Kuokoa so that it looks as nice (or better). One of the coolest signatures I have ever seen (it got me thinking about buying a mac) was 'OSX is proof that is easier to make Linux pretty than

Re: [LUAU] Am I going to TPOSSCON - If not why?

2006-02-01 Thread Robert Green
Hi there, You may not know me, I'm a list lurker 99% of the time for the past many years, and just now wading through the smoldering backlog of mail from the past week on LUAU and HOSEF / HOSEF managers. I just wanted to thank you for: a) trying to keep a level head and calm things down

[LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread Josh
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I have trouble imagining that Google would want to get into the Desktop OS business. Ubuntu isn't bad, but the only way anyone will profit is if they sell computers in volume with Linux pre-installed. Try telling that to RedHat, or any of the

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread prb
Josh wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I have trouble imagining that Google would want to get into the Desktop OS business. Ubuntu isn't bad, but the only way anyone will profit is if they sell computers in volume with Linux pre-installed. Try telling that to

Re: [LUAU] TUX magazine - free electronic mag for new Linux users

2006-02-01 Thread Jim Thompson
On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Julian Yap wrote: There's a free electronic magazine called TUX that's quite good. It's from the guys who do Linux Journal magazine. Its actually Carlie Fairchild's baby, but she stays (mostly) invisible in the process. http://www.carliefairchild.com/ I

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread prb
Ask yourself, what's their market for YALD? Geeks? None of us would tolerate such an invasion of privacy. Jim Thompson wrote: Yet all of us use Google now. This is what I use: http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html When I use Google directly, I block their cookie. I use Jump Link on their

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Darnell
On 2/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ask yourself, what's their market for YALD? Geeks? None of us would tolerate such an invasion of privacy. N00bs? They try Linux if a Geek helps them. The efforts of Xandros and Linspire are just a drop in the bucket. Corporate customers?

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread Jim Thompson
Matt Darnell wrote: On 2/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ask yourself, what's their market for YALD? Geeks? None of us would tolerate such an invasion of privacy. N00bs? They try Linux if a Geek helps them. The efforts of Xandros and Linspire are just a drop in the bucket.

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Darnell
Try this one http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi It beat the Chinese filtering. this gets my vote for best use of functions you wrote in CS 101. This is the best googleever http://sites.gizoogle.com/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2F -M

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread prb
Jim Thompson wrote: OK, but you still use Google, and very few people erect the Googlewall that you have. Is that what it's called? :) They didn't have an org the size of Google (and with the branding of Google) pushing it, either. To my mind, the missing bit in a Google desktop is

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread prb
Matt Darnell wrote: Try this one http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi It beat the Chinese filtering. Cute. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky

Re: [LUAU] Re: Goobuntu Linux

2006-02-01 Thread Julian Yap
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 18:40 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: I think you are (again) dealing in historical artifact. Yes, most of the early move was Unix - Linux, but there is ample evidence that Linux is now slowly eroding the growth Windows market share, especially

[LUAU] Putting the UG back in LUG

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Darnell
Aloha, Putting out a call for for any Luau folks who want to build some projects I have in mind...and any projects you have in mind! The first project is building a mythtv box. Mythtv is an open source Tivo - http://www.mythtv.org/ If we get some hardcore folks we can try to build it from