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The more important question is where is this magical Google-blessed rolling release Debian available to download? We've all heard rumors of this internal Google
by emptysongglass 4y ago
The more important question is where is this magical Google-blessed rolling release Debian available to download? We've all heard rumors of this internal Google distro and what I'm reading is their intent to give back. You can use Microsoft's CBL-Mariner today.
Where is Google's?
- AdmiralAsshat 4y agoWhy yes, they could share Goobuntu with the world. But they don't have to, and so they won't.
- leoh 4y agoIt’s really not that interesting
- etbusch 4y agoIt seems like they are just using Debian testing with periodic version freezes. It's very likely not all that different from just running testing.
- brandon 4y agoMost of the stuff that makes the distribution different from Debian Testing is tightly coupled with Google's internal infrastructure and generally uninteresting (or unuseful) to users writ large. Just run Debian!
- qmarchi 4y agoIf you want to get really technical, there's not much difference between Google's gLinux and Debian testing. Notably, our security, provisioning, and tooling is installed, and that's about it. Nothing that's particularly useful outside of the corp bubble. Disc: Googler, not in CorpEng.
- ryanobjc 4y agoNot to mention many of those things don't work outside the rarified environment that is a fully managed VLAN. Regarding "security", remember plenty of security is things like auditing, remote logs, ability of remote admins to control machines, etc, etc. It's ultimately all boring, but essential, large fleet management stuff.
- POPOSYS 4y ago
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoI have never seen a gender-based criticism of the fragmentation of Linux distros, that’s for sure…