Google Desktop goes Linux
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| Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop
| search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on
| the desktop.
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| [...]
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| Google Desktop for Linux was written natively...
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| [...]
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| Google also offers Linux versions of its Picasa photo-editing software, as
| well as Google Earth and Google Toolbar for Firefox.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6193579.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Related:
Firefox 3 and Google team up for offline apps
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| Firefox 3 will be the first internet browser to offer offline web
| application support when it launches at the end of this year.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/118296/firefox-3-and-google-team-up-for-offline-apps.html
What the world needs now is Google Linux
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| Following Microsoft's inking of agreements with Linux hawkers,
| offering to shield them from lawsuits over the 235 patents it
| reckons versions of Linux infringe, a gathering of open sorcerers
| is assembling at Google HQ to debate what is to be done.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40365
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7747894@N05/530284454/in/set-72157600310669314/
Gears of War
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| The new Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2168419/nav/tap3/rss
Red Hat - not losing Dell but gaining a Google
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| And now the good news, rumours are floating about of a deal between Red
| Hat and fluffy online search behemoth Google with various tie-ups being
| touted including Red Hat's latest operating system -- RHEL 5 -- or a
| version there of -- being used as the OS for a Google phone?
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10005260o-2000331759b,00.htm
Google goes its own way
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| He says using open source gives Google a competitive advantage,
| since its engineers can customise the software as they see fit,
| for example by creating the Goobuntu flavour of the Ubuntu Linux
| distribution. This makes their applications run more
| efficiently.
|
| [...]
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| "Good friendly distributions with good friendly community members"
| is the way to convince consumers to choose Linux over Windows for
| their desktops," he says. "It's legitimate for people to be
| suspicious of free things. I think it scares people away
| sometimes."
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3949278a28.html
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