>>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 1:34 pm, in message
<4405E950.7060401@perennialwisdom.com>, khepri@perennialwisdom.com
wrote:
> Jeremy of Linuxquestions.org writes about a Google "appliance" rather
> than all out OS;
>
> "The power of Google branding should be readily apparent now. One
> interesting thing here is, this should worry Novell (and to a lesser
> extent Red Hat) at least as much as it worries Microsoft. The desktop
> market is a big piece of the potential OS pie. A move by Google could
> all but lock other Linux- based options out."
>
> Looks like this might be building to Apple levels of hype and
speculation.
>
> This story kicked it off;
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01...desktop_linux/
>
> I just can't see anyone that already uses Linux switching for
something
> like this...But Aunt Sally who only writes emails, has a few
bookmarks
> and occasionally prints a letter or two.....just maybe....
>
> Is this what Dell is dragging their feet on?
>
I think the link you were attempting to reference is
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
No sources have been cited and given Google's ability to keep things
under wrap, no one has given this much credibility at present.
If you haven't seen where Novell is on the Novell Linux Desktop...you
may wish to see this http://youtube.com/watch?v=vDArLR6FIzA or the other
1/2 dozen clips on some nifty linux desktop features. It's all open
source, of course.
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