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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, September 2, 2009 8:53 am, Dan Colish wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Larry Brigman >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael >>> Robinson<[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Tim Wescott > Control systems and communications consulting > http://www.wescottdesign.com > > Land line: 503.631.7815 > Cell: 503.349.8432 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
