How Google Uses Linux 155
postfail writes 'lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers on 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.'
A New Culture (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Release the patches already (Score:5, Funny)
Can we donate some money and buy these people a site that _doesn't_ look like a goatse link?
Re:Togh (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed:
"The Linux dev model is the worst form of development, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
... Oh wait, no. That was me, actually.
wtf? (Score:2, Funny)
Oh sorry...title had me thinking this was penguin porn
Re:So about 1/10th Sun's contribution (Score:5, Funny)
That's a drop in the bucket compared to what Sun has contributed to open source. Of course, slashdot appears to be perversely against Sun for some reason I cannot fathom.
Names are very important. The name Sun reminds of that place on the other side of the door where if we go, our skin gets red and burns. Google reminds us of that friendly homepage that would load under 5 seconds on dial-up.
Re:Release the patches already (Score:3, Funny)
In contrast to goatse, which has all the content on one page?