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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.'

3 of 155 comments (clear)

  1. Frosty Piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's the difference between the guy who mods this down and a bucket of shit? The bucket!

  2. Open source is the coat tails that Google rides. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They take and take from open source and throw back a couple of table scraps and you people all kiss their ass for it.

    Amazingly short sighted.

  3. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Omgz! Google AND Linux in a story!!! Every slashbots wet dream!!!