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Google Steps into The Linux World

More Linux solutions coming soon

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

19th of June 2007, 16:51 GMT

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The Linux world is based on a huge community of users who are continuously working to improve the distributions and the applications included in them. As you probably know, the Mountain View company released several Linux versions of its software solutions but it seems that the search giants wants to boost this number soon. At this time, the Linux users can install Google Earth and Google Picasa but several downloadable applications such as

Google Talk, Google SketchUp and Desktop might receive a Linux flavor soon.

As Phonorix reported, the Google employee published a lot of valuable details about the company's plans concerning the Linux distributions at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.

"In addition to Chris DiBona's words about NVIDIA and ATI binary display drivers, Google had also made an interesting splash at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit (which they had kindly hosted at their Mountain View campus) during a presentation by the Google Linux Client Team. What was it? Well, there are some "significant accomplishments" and other new Google desktop applications coming out this year for the Linux platform," Phonorix sustained.

Google is a web-based company with million of users accessing the online solutions powered by the search giant. However, Google also owns several offline products, some of them accessible on several platforms such as Windows, Mac and Linux but most of them are compatible only with Microsoft's operating system.

The Mountain View company is continuously struggling to migrate into the offline mode in several domains. The most impressive attempts were concerning the advertising platforms because Google wanted to take its ad solutions into the offline media and place adverts straight into newspapers, radio stations or billboards. Until now, only one solution is officially available as the search giant already introduced the Audio Ads, a product that allows you to advertise your products using the US radio stations.

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