I think you're listing wrong reasons to prefer Google's images, while there are some right reasons. * Faster fetch - not a big deal IMO (edit: you could just m

I think you're listing wrong reasons to prefer Google's images, while there are some right reasons. * Faster fetch - not a big deal IMO (edit: you could just mirror, you don't have to do the patching) * Content trust - but trust to e.g. Canonical's Ubuntu is required anyway, right? And then, you have to trust Google. Examples of reasons I would take as good: * Does Google routinely do audit of original distro images, so that it's less of a risk to use community distro like Debian? It could. * Is Google "manning" the work on the actual distributed software, accepting users' bugreports and then working with upstream to fix it? It could. Even-more-downstream-distro is actually not a bad idea.