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. Thomas Bushnell, a Google technical leader for the company's Linux desktops, displayed Goobuntu at LinuxCon 2012. Bushnell said 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 Mark Shuttleworth, 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 patches 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

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

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