I been hearing rumors that Google is planning to do a OS, they say it might be another linux distro, which I doubt, i think it will be based off unix yes, but well, I don't know =/, they been hiring a lot of developers lately =/

I wouldn't be surprised. I think it would probably be based off Debian or Red Hat. They might be a huge company but I don't think they can just create a new package manager from thin air and exepct everyone to use it.

Money can get all though, =/

Theyve got the money and either already have or can easily get the people skilled enough to do it... so I dont see why not. Although they could go for something like unix or linux based because then they will be running based on a trusted product

Money can't buy the community.

Originally Posted by Chris

Money can't buy the community.

Ok I need a brick to slap you or something , why the **** they need a community, google is freaking famous :| , they just release something and there a lot of people using it already lol.

That doesn't buy the thousands of developers working on hardware drivers for *nix systems, or the thousands the programs already running on these systems.

Just because Google is a powerful push in the tech industry doesn't mean they can wave a magic wand and create a totally new OS and expect the entire market to accept it.

They will have to base it off another OS, most likely Linux. There is more to a successful operating system them simply a kernel and a WM.

If they start from complete scratch, then they will have to spend a lot more money creating hardware support right off the bat, not to mention convincing developers that their platform is worth it over the already popular *nix OS's, let alone Windows or Mac OS.

That is what I mean by saying "they can't buy the community".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they cannot do it. I don't think it would be in their best interest to start from scratch when there is a perfectly good, usable, extensible system already for them to adopt. Either they use *nix base, or they have to make sure to support the drivers and API's already made for these systems -- which at this point, you might as well use it anyway.

Originally Posted by Chris

That doesn't buy the thousands of developers working on hardware drivers for *nix systems, or the thousands the programs already running on these systems.

Just because Google is a powerful push in the tech industry doesn't mean they can wave a magic wand and create a totally new OS and expect the entire market to accept it.

They will have to base it off another OS, most likely Linux. There is more to a successful operating system them simply a kernel and a WM.

If they start from complete scratch, then they will have to spend a lot more money creating hardware support right off the bat, not to mention convincing developers that their platform is worth it over the already popular *nix OS's, let alone Windows or Mac OS.

That is what I mean by saying "they can't buy the community".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they cannot do it. I don't think it would be in their best interest to start from scratch when there is a perfectly good, usable, extensible system already for them to adopt. Either they use *nix base, or they have to make sure to support the drivers and API's already made for these systems -- which at this point, you might as well use it anyway.

We don't know yet though, I bet they will base it linux, yet again, google enough power to create their own package manager, so that goes right to a big question. then again if they do there going to be 4 OS. knowing google they will have a clean interface, something like mac *i mean decent interface*.

remember osx was based of FreeBSD.

Originally Posted by nick89

remember osx was based of FreeBSD.

well i don't know to much on the OSX history so i can't say to much lol