Ubuntu as a family

Michael R. Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Wed May 24 14:58:54 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 03:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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. 

Any reason these don't count? http://code.google.com/projects.html

> 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...

I'm not sure how those two examples of software equate.

> -- 
> If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
> how many people understand hex?
> 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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