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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @11:54PM
How would that help anyone? Systemd is fantastic for containerised, headless or rapid spin-up and spin-down deployments, the kind that Google would be using.
Not just due to boot speed (which is almost entirely irrelevant), it starts things, isolates things and makes sure they're running - all from a single unified configuration. You don't need to mess around with supervisord and so on to build something decently robust and resilient.
Plus, many current container management stacks do depend on parts of systemd in the host environment.