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Google should acquire Canonical and merge Ubuntu with Android

intomobile.com: Ubuntu could easily emerge as a force to reckon with in the mobile industry. Perhaps a stand-alone Ubuntu platform won’t succeed (cause it lacks major backers), but Ubuntu for Android definitely has a chance.

Also: The Insidious Nature of Chromebooks

Chromebook Advances as Linux Desktop Spins its Wheels

linuxadvocates.com: Ubuntu, ChromeOS, and SuSE, are the only commercial Distros which are marketing Linux Desktop systems. With the exception of Chromebook, none is doing measurably well in the U.S. market.

Google's cloud dumps custom Linux, switches to Debian

theregister.co.uk: Google is moving the default software for its rentable cloud servers from a custom version of Linux to Debian.

The secret origins of Google's Chrome OS

zdnet.com: Many people know that Chrome OS is based on Linux. But where did Google's operating system actually come from -- and what is it made of today? Here's its story.

Booting desktop Linux on the Chromebook Pixel

h-online.com: Bill Richardson, a software engineer for Google, has detailed how to boot a conventional Linux distribution on the company's new Chromebook Pixel.

Chrome stops declaring Linux systems obsolete

h-online.com: Badly chosen warning messages caused some consternation with Google recently as its Chrome browser began declaring supported Linux systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 obsolete.

Google doesn’t want people to know about better software

lunduke.com: Google has decided, today, that RadicalBreeze.com contains malware. The only thing available from RadicalBreeze.com is Illumination Software Creator.

Bringing self-driving cars to NASCAR

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  • Google celebrated with Google doodle

Free Software Is Just Fine

Google is killing Free Software

  • Is it time for Microsoft to relinquish the Evil Empire crown to Google?
  • Google Chrome Growth Levels Off as IE Rebounds
  • Google is killing Free Software

Researchers accuse Google of plotting to undercut Firefox

computerworld.com: A security testing firm today said a recent report that named Google's Chrome as the most secured browser was flawed -- and part of a campaign by Google to undermine Mozilla's Firefox.

Is Google losing it?

h-online.com: Google is a key ally for free software. And that means its growing series of mis-steps are extremely bad news, because they damage its credibility – and hence its ability to fight for things that are important for the free software world.

Google's open source search to end

h-online.com: Google has announced that it is closing Google Code Search – the search engine which specifically crawls open source software – on 15 January, 2012. Google says that the closure is part of its current programme to focus on products that people "use two or three times a day".

Google Won’t Pwn Me!

noctslackv1.wordpress: Well, my experiment with G+ and social networking has come to its end tonight.

Google discontinues specialised Linux and BSD search pages

h-online.com: Google has discontinued its specialised Linux and BSD search pages. Users are instead now redirected to google.com/webhp, a standard search page.

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