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The more important question is where is this magical Google-blessed rolling release Debian available to download? We've all heard rumors of this internal Google distro and what I'm reading is their intent to give back. You can use Microsoft's CBL-Mariner today.

Where is Google's?

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Most of the stuff that makes the distribution different from Debian Testing is tightly coupled with Google's internal infrastructure and generally uninteresting (or unuseful) to users writ large. Just run Debian!

If you want to get really technical, there's not much difference between Google's gLinux and Debian testing.

Notably, our security, provisioning, and tooling is installed, and that's about it. Nothing that's particularly useful outside of the corp bubble.

Disc: Googler, not in CorpEng.

Not to mention many of those things don't work outside the rarified environment that is a fully managed VLAN.

Regarding "security", remember plenty of security is things like auditing, remote logs, ability of remote admins to control machines, etc, etc. It's ultimately all boring, but essential, large fleet management stuff.

It seems like they are just using Debian testing with periodic version freezes. It's very likely not all that different from just running testing.

Why yes, they could share Goobuntu with the world. But they don't have to, and so they won't.

It’s really not that interesting

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