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Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian

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

Apparition writes:

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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @07:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @07:59PM (#626721)

    Because Google doesn't market their internal distro, they don't have to return anything they develop.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu [wikipedia.org]

    Bushnell explained that "Goobuntu is simply a light skin over standard Ubuntu."

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