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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 23 2018, @07:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the goocafeteria-serves-googurt dept.

For years, Google used an in-house Linux distribution called Goobuntu (based on Ubuntu LTS releases), as its development platform. No more.

After more than five years with Ubuntu, Google is replacing Goobuntu with gLinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian Testing.

[...] As MuyLinux reports, gLinux is being built from the source code of the packages and Google introduces its own changes to it. The changes will also be contributed to the upstream.

[...] How does Google plan to move to Debian Testing? The current Debian Testing release is upcoming Debian 10 Buster. Google has developed an internal tool to migrate the existing systems from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Debian 10 Buster. Project leader Margarita claimed in the Debconf talk that tool was tested to be working fine.

Google also plans to send the changes to Debian Upstream and hence contributing to its development.

[...] Back in 2012, Canonical had clarified that Google is not their largest business desktop customer. However, it is safe to say that Google was a big customer for them. As Google prepares to switch to Debian, this will surely result in revenue loss for Canonical.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @07:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @07:55PM (#626720)

    Probably Google could teach Canonical a whole bag of tricks, especially with regard to reducing extraneous packages and making servers very efficient

    My experience suggests that Google knows nothing about such efficiency; Google's solution is to throw more computing, more contractors, and more money at any problem that gets in the way. Code monkeys to the rescue!

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:20PM (#626729)

    He was a relatively unknown magician who finally stumbled upon the opportunity to perform in front of a large audience. He did not intend to waste this chance, so he decided to pull out all the stops...

    The obese magician pointed at a little boy in the audience to signify that he would be the volunteer for this trick. The boy's parents encouraged him to get up on stage, and so he did. There were no props or tools to be seen, so the audience began wondering what sort of trick would be performed. Then, the red curtains closed, thereby concealing the boy and the magician. 'Just what kind of trick is this?' the audience thought to themselves.

    Soon after the curtains closed, the audience heard the man telling the boy to take off his clothes. This was followed by the boy sobbing and telling the magician that he didn't want to. Next, the man screamed at the boy to follow his orders. It wasn't long before the audience could hear slapping sounds, as though flesh was colliding with flesh repeatedly. In addition, the sound of a man moaning could be heard. Several minutes later, the curtains began to open...

    What the audience witnessed next was beyond their ability to comprehend. Was it really a trick, or was it true magic!? Marvelous! The audience saw the boy naked and lying in a pool of his own blood, utterly motionless. The magician was sweating heavily and looked like he was in a state of euphoria. The magician then said "Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" 'How did he do it!?' the audience thought to themselves. Then, every single person who bore witness to this magnificent event - including the boy's parents - gave the performer a standing ovation. Someone shouted, "How did you do it!? I need to know how this amazing trick was performed!" The magician smiled and said simply, "A magician doesn't reveal his tricks." Everyone laughed.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:07AM (#626938)

    From what I've seen google do it's not even that, they just add more PRNG iterations to their various AI (bruteforce by another name) algorithms which nobody there actually understands anymore.