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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.

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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.

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