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How Google Uses Linux

Posted by timothy on from the rebasing-not-freebasing dept.

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.'

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  1. Expected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I am with Linus on this one
    Linus is right
    The man makes sense
    He is absolutely correct on this one