Ubuntu as a family

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 16:39, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > It definitely means just that in this case. Google do use Ubuntu
> > internally, but I wouldn't be surprised if those PhD's were
> > having a contest to see who could build a gRedHat or a gGentoo
> > the fastest.
>
> On a more serious note: I know that Google uses Linux extensively
> in their own operations, but do they make any contributions back to
> the community?

Not that I'm aware of. It's a bit odd considering that the 100,000+ 
servers that make up Google run a Linux kernel with a custom 
filesystem and yet a Google Earth that runs on X is apparently beyond 
them...

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Alan McKinnon
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