Goobuntu was a

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based on

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LTS (long-term support). It was used by almost 10,000

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employees. It added a number of packages for in-house use, including security features and disabled the installation of some applications, but was otherwise similar.

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, a Google technical leader for the company's Linux desktops, displayed Goobuntu at LinuxCon 2012. Bushnell explained that "Goobuntu is simply a light skin over standard Ubuntu." Some suggested Google might plan to market the distribution more widely, but Goobuntu was never officially released. While both Google and

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, who spearheaded the development of Ubuntu, confirmed the existence of Goobuntu, both denied that Google had any plans to market the

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. Mark Shuttleworth confirmed that Google has contributed

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es to Ubuntu. Google used

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to manage its installed base of Goobuntu machines. In 2018, Google replaced Goobuntu with gLinux, a Linux distribution based on

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Testing.

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A screenshot of the login screen in Goobuntu
snapped at an officewarming party held for Google's newly inaugurated

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

offices (Yaron Orenstein). Ubuntu derivatives Google software Linux distributions de:Liste von Linux-Distributionen#Ubuntu-Derivate {{Google-stub

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