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Goobuntu - Googles InHouse Linux OS

Brett_Tabke

1:36 am on Jul 31, 2022 (gmt 0)

Fascinating article on how Google created an inhouse version of Ubuntu, and then move to a Debian version.

Google has been baking and eating its own homemade Linux desktop distribution. The first version was Goobuntu. (As you'd guess from the name, it was based on Ubuntu.)

In 2018, Google moved its in-house Linux desktop from the Goobuntu to a new Linux distro, the Debian-based gLinux. Why? Because, as Google explained, Ubuntu's Long Term Support (LTS) two-year release "meant that we had to upgrade every machine in our fleet of over 100,000 devices before the end-of-life date of the OS."

[computerworld.com...]

not2easy

2:55 am on Jul 31, 2022 (gmt 0)

What a special way to pass the time. It says one engineer deals with all the upgrades.

dstiles

8:23 am on Jul 31, 2022 (gmt 0)

Surely they would have carried out a feasibility study before running up 100,000 machines? There's enough information out there to indicate that Ubuntu is not the best choice for that scale of operation. Even a dummy like me knows better.

Brett_Tabke

1:17 pm on Jul 31, 2022 (gmt 0)

During the 00's Ubuntu was one of the most stable full featured, and easy to install distro's out there. G switched to Debian in about 2016 (after Ubuntu's update schedule became lame). [androidpolice.com...]

Dimitri

1:55 pm on Aug 1, 2022 (gmt 0)

I've been using Debian, since always , ... just saying :)