[PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 19:08:00 UTC 2009


As a former Googler I can say we did use a custom Ubuntu called
Goobuntu. No real secret sauce to it. Just bundled with some tools we
used in house of course I can't say what because of that darned NDA :)

Drew

On 9/2/09, Tim Wescott <tim at wescottdesign.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, September 2, 2009 8:53 am, Dan Colish wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Larry Brigman
>> <larry.brigman at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael
>>> Robinson<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>>> > I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS
>>> > sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go.
>>> >
>
>  -- snip --
>
>> One of the nice advantages of CentOS piggy-backing on RHEL is that it is
>> supported for what seems like forever. There is still a stable release of
>> CentOS 3 with backports and updates. For these kind of distributions there
>> should not be a 3 or 5 year cut off since the systems they are used to
>> build
>> will be running for much longer and need to be extremely stable. When you
>> run CentOS you should thinking about uptime. (I wonder what distro google
>> uses... )
>
> Google is large enough that using it's own distribution could make
> economic sense -- since it's not distributing it 'out of house' I suspect
> that it could even keep it's own changes private, if it wanted to.
>
> But that's just supposition -- I'd like to know too.
>
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