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DATE | 2009-07-08 |
FROM | Ron Guerin
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Google operating system
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From lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Wed Jul 8 09:20:20 2009 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n68DKHvD015420 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:20:19 -0400 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n68DKHNS015419 for hangout-outgoings; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:20:17 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to lest-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from broadway.vnetworx.net (broadway.vnetworx.net [69.31.43.18]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n68DKFhM015414 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:20:17 -0400 Received: (qmail 9215 invoked by uid 89); 8 Jul 2009 13:20:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.33?) (74.73.9.131) by broadway.vnetworx.net with SMTP for ; 8 Jul 2009 13:20:12 -0000 Message-ID: <4A549CFE.1080509-at-vnetworx.net> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:19:58 -0400 From: Ron Guerin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Google operating system References: <4A548879.2050806-at-gmail.com> <4A5491F1.1060403-at-vnetworx.net> <4A54995D.5090805-at-gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A54995D.5090805-at-gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Paul Robert Marino wrote: > Ron Guerin wrote: >> Paul Robert Marino wrote: >> >>> Hey I was watching the news and they just said that Google announced >>> they are coming out with a PC operating system. >>> Considering their history I cant help thinking it will be a variation >>> of Android which is GNU Linux based. >>> >>> >> Oh man, I wish they'd do us all a favor and not. Allow me to underline >> that Android is *not* GNU/Linux based. Google has taken great pains to >> ensure there's no GNU in Android. >> >> - Ron >> > well it is using the Linux kernel > granted the rest of the OS is mostly in house built however when > moving to a larger platform like a PC its hard to imagine they > wouldn't leverage the wide range of GNU software. besides I cant see > them not using GNU libC or GCC. > its all a question of how GNU is it. You might want to read up about it. Google doesn't allow any GPL in their stuff. That pretty much excludes everything GNU. That GNU/Linux users might struggle to twist it into an acceptable form makes it no better than Windows or OS X.
- Ron
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