I know that we have covered this a few times already. Regardless, I feel that it always a good plan to take things in from all sides…

Yesterday’s news brought mention of a rumor of Google possibly planning their own release of a desktop linux distribution, something I said I would wholeheartedly welcome. But by days end, it was made well known that Google has no intention of doing any such thing and only uses Linux (and possibly Ubuntu) internally… at least that’s what Google’s Sonya Borälv had to say on the matter.

What’s interesting, though, is an article I saw mentioned over at OSNews that says “Google’s Dan Kegel will be keynoting at the 2006 Southern California Linux Expo on Feb 12th. He will be giving a presentation titled “Why doesn’t Johnny run Linux? Or, Overcoming Desktop Obstacles”. Dan will go over some of the main issues identified by the recent Desktop Linux Survey and Desktop Linux Architects’ meeting at OSDL, as well as his own list of issues, and what’s being done to solve them.” [Read the rest]

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