Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Peter A. Murray
Ubuntu seems to be a cleaned up version of Debian. As pointed out by Erast, NexentaOS might be an easy port for Google. Users and Google should not care about the underlying OS, but only about the interface. Peter On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:22 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:49 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > The last part of the puzzle are little projects like roseta, they make > those users without programming skills feel like they are usefull to the > community while saving the tedious work of for example translating to a > new langua

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:22 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to > become the Linux distribution of choice? From every conversation I've > had with Jeff, he indicates they're not a development team [1] and > they've only been doing some sm

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glynn Foster wrote: > > Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to > become the Linux distribution of choice? From every conversation I've I think ubuntu took the idea or low entry barrier to the limit, they are actually giv

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Glynn Foster
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:38 -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:08 -0800, peter murray wrote: > > http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/ > > > > Would it not be cool if we could get google to use OpenSolaris instead of > > linux. > > Now, think about

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:08 -0800, peter murray wrote: > http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/ > > Would it not be cool if we could get google to use OpenSolaris instead of > linux. Now, think about NexentaOS for the moment... This is exactly what they come up with, i

[osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread peter murray
http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/ Would it not be cool if we could get google to use OpenSolaris instead of linux. Solaris has much better security and offers many features that Linux does not. End users should not care as long as the desktop looks nice and it wo