a google OS?

[4E.Kipper]

hi all,

i've heard a google OS mentioned several times while browsing around the net. i;ve digging up more info and found a few things, but nothing major.

i was wondering if anyone here knew anything more? or if the google os is just a idea with no substance behind it.

any links or anything would be cool..


thanks in advance

[hansdown]

Hi 4E.Kipper.

There are some things here.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=google+computer+os&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

[cardinals_fan]

You might mean:

1. gOS: an Ubuntu derivative with some web apps. A pretty sad effort in my opinion, but it's had lots of press. No official relationship with Google.

2. Goobuntu: an in-house Ubuntu variant at Google. You won't be using it unless you work there.

3. Android: Google's OS for phones. It can be run on PCs (http://www.slashgear.com/android-running-on-eee-pc-1000-netbook-0228541/), but I read a very good essay on why it's a bad choice (I'll look and see if I can find it for you).

[4E.Kipper]

thanks guys. more reading for me :-)
i still cant quite decided if it will actually happen or not.
http://www.i4u.com/article22194.html with this site saying google has been hiding the OS used. hmm....maybe its just a beefed up android system

[cardinals_fan]

From that link:
We have never seen an OS stripped off the user agent string before. I believe you have to arrange to have that happen, it’s not something we’ve seen before with a proxy server. All I can tell you is there’s a good percentage of the people at Google showing up [at Web pages] with their OS hidden.
Epic fail.

[lswb]

There were some articles about a week ago about some guys who recompiled android ( The open OS for mobile devices that google has been working on) to run on a laptop, something in the "netbook" class IIRC. Here is the Ars Technica article

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090105-android-netbook-port-leaves-some-pondering-google-os.html

Apparently it already includes most of the needed code to run on an X86 system since they claim it took them only 4 hours to mod & compile it. Of course it is not fully functional at this point and for better or worse does not use X for graphics. BTW android is based on linux.

[jrusso2]

Right now google android is their operating system. It has to be recompiled though to run on a PC as it was made to run on phones with ARM CPU.