Talk:Google OS

merger

Considering how there is no information on both and they really deal with the same family of rumours, they may as well be merged. Janizary 01:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I disagree. Goobuntu is the name of Google's internal, tailor-made fork of ubuntu, and it has been confirmed to exist. Google OS is Google's supposed "windows killer", which probably does not exist. If you treat them both as the same thing, you would confuse people. Since they are two concepts, I think they deserve two articles. --Snargle 03:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I was thinking that the article should do the whole, this is just a rumour that the company has disavowed, then say that the reality of the operating system rumour likely stems from Google's private Ubuntu - otherwise the article is completely useless, because it's just saying, "yeah there's a rumour, it's wrong." Janizary 05:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand, Janizary. Google OS may stem from Goobuntu, but there's no proof of that, and that's not the whole story by any means. Considering that a Google spokesperson said that Goobuntu wouldn't run on standard hardware, and that google registered www.googleos.com(or something), these apparently refer to different operating systems: one real OS, for google internal use, and one (probably) fake OS, for consumers. You can't just merge articles on two different operating systems. -- Snargle 06:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo of Spain is hardly a representative of Google, nor is Splitter corp of New Orleans - who registered goobuntu.com. There is no such thing as Google OS, it is a bunk rumour that people who hope to see the end of Microsoft jizz over trying to prove in order to somehow make their lives seem less wretched. A domain being registered does not a product make, especially when it's just random dinks doing the registering. Janizary 06:38, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

You're missing my point. I agree that google OS probably doesn't exist. My point was that google OS and Goobuntu are separate operating systems. That means they deserve saperate articles. Snargle 22:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I know the point you're trying to make, it doesn't make sense to me. You're not seeing my point however, the point I am trying to make is that one isn't an operating system. There is the operating system Goobuntu, which is just a modified Ubuntu for private use and will never see the light of day outside of Google offices, then there is Google OS, a rumour that has no basis in anything Google has ever said or done - which has, in truth, been completely rejected by Google. Do you not think it makes sense to merge the two, since one doesn't and never will exist from all evidence? Perhaps merging in the opposite direction makes more sense then, since Goobuntu actually exists. Janizary 01:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Just look at these articles. This one only describes the hype surrounding a myth. Goobuntu is an actual OS. If these even could be merged, I think it would only confuse people. BTW, were you planning to merge these? Feel free to try. Snargle 02:50, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think you give people enough credit, it really ought not be a big problem if the Google OS information is turned into a subsection of Goobuntu, clearly showing that though Goobuntu is real and not going public, people still talk about a mythical Google OS, blah, blah, blah... I'm not going to do it based on my own gut feeling, at least not yet. I'll wait for more opinions to be put up and for me to be done with my pet projects. Janizary 23:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in. I don't think they should be merged. One is a real tangible OS that is proven to exist. The other is a rumored (heavily) but rumored OS to compete with Windows.JohnnyBGood 02:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

It is well known that Google modifies Linux for use on its servers, so nobody should be surprised that they would hire OS experts. It does not point to an impending desktop OS at all. Gazpacho 17:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

You're right. Google OS doesn't exist, and it's just a popular rumor. Why did you delete this article? --Snargle 19:52, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I didn't, but I tagged it for deletion because a previous article about the rumor was already deleted, and this article is just as speculative. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Google OS. Gazpacho 23:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)