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How Google Uses Linux[2009]

• shadowsun7 16y ago
  Semi-related: a video of Linus giving a talk on Git at Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 Watch for the bit where he goes: "What are you guys using? pause Perforce? longer pause I'm ... sorry."
  • ableal 16y ago
    Take that with a grain of salt. Linus is snug as a bug in a rug, having solved his own problem of dealing with e-mailed patches. This also works for many coders with similar work-flows. But, for work-flows with binaries (documents, images, executables, etc.) Perforce looks better, if you read through the comments in the LWN piece. For instance: [git, problems with binaries] this has been documented several times, but it seems to be in the category of 'interesting problem, we should do something about that someday, but not a priority' right now P.S. a couple of months ago, in another HN discussion, stevelosh kindly contributed a link about the bfiles extension for Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BfilesExtension http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BfilesExtension
    • shadowsun7 16y ago
      The article above talks about Google's work on the Linux kernel, something that is managed competently with Git outside of the company. Granted, Linus's comment is a sweeping statement (as most snarky comments tend to be) but in this context, Perforce seems woefully inadequate for managing Google's kernel work.
• moolave 16y ago
  So far Linux is still the best for server storage.