Goobuntu?

[vasa1]

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/05/h...se-ubuntu.html

Some of the Google employees also requested removing Unity and Gnome 3 and using xmonad instead.

Surprise!

I've used tiling window managers a few times myself... They make normal desktop usage a pain IMO, but I can see where they'd be good for long coding sessions, especially on a large monitor. With your windows all automatically lined up, your work flow probably isn't interrupted as much.

[funkydude]

Originally Posted by Gullible Jones

Surprise!

Yeah... totally not surprised they did that...

The entire process of upgrading can take as much as 4 months and it is also quite expensive as one reboot or a small change can cost them as much as 1 million dollars.

Head just exploded, wow.

I guess I'll watch the video because for all the talk of "liking Ubuntu" they have a funny way of showing it by removing Linux support - or having it lacking - from their various products. You'd think they would want to use their own products, no? Maybe they don't use Linux as much as they let on.

edit: Enlightening video, I saw that at 27:50 he mentions, "we don't run Ubuntu on our production machines" but doesn't say what they are using. Though I'm interested in seeing the autotests they publish, if they do.

[vasa1]

I'm probably not going to get a chance to watch that video. They should put up smaller bits. 57 min sucks. I'm trying to download it but I'll have to be very lucky to get it.

[vasa1]

I got part of it and what's clear is there isn't going to be a public distro. The mods they make are highly specific to Google's needs.

[vasa1]

The goobuntu stuff finishes by about 26 min. After that there are (very) minor presentations on K-, X-, and Lubuntu and a couple more. The sound gets worse at the video progresses.

[funkydude]

Originally Posted by vasa1

The goobuntu stuff finishes by about 26 min. After that there are (very) minor presentations on K-, X-, and Lubuntu and a couple more. The sound gets worse at the video progresses.

It's really a shame because they start talking about Ubuntu Studio (something I've never heard of before) that perked by interests. It's basically a customized fork of Xubuntu with various audio, video and image manipulation programs. From what I could tell it sounded like they have a good plans for it.

Originally Posted by vasa1

I got part of it and what's clear is there isn't going to be a public distro. The mods they make are highly specific to Google's needs.

Being as it is mostly default Ubuntu I don't think many would really be interested in it unless they were using their own shell, in which case they could just make that public. But from what I could grasp from the video they let their users have whatever shell he/she wants.