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+-   How Google Uses Linux[->] on Friday November 06, @11:19PM postfail

Submitted by postfail on Friday November 06, @11:19PM
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postfail writes "lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit (http://lwn.net/Articles/KernelSummit2009/) includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers and how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features."
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