[HN Gopher] How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
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How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
Author : HieronymusBosch
Score : 10 points
Date : 2022-07-12 19:13 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (cloud.google.com)
| Barrin92 wrote:
| personally I'm a pretty big fan of opensuse tumbleweed for a
| rolling distribution because they ship fully tested snapshots
| each day rather than individual packages. If I understand the
| article correctly Google's Sieve is similar to the Opensuse Build
| Service in that regard.
| lynguist wrote:
| Can I ask the following as this what Google did is literally what
| I try to achieve on a Raspberry Pi:
|
| I have configured unattended-upgrades (the package from apt) on a
| Raspberry Pi on Raspbian 10, but no security updates seem to ever
| be released. Is there a gotcha I'm missing resp. is there a
| better way of configuring an always-on computer and keep it
| secure?
| emptysongglass wrote:
| 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?
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Why yes, they _could_ share Goobuntu with the world. But they
| don 't _have_ to, and so they won 't.
| etbusch wrote:
| 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.
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