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Google Talks About Its Ubuntu Experience
dartttt writes "There was a very interesting session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit by Google developer Thomas Bushnell. He talked about how Ubuntu, its derivatives and Goobuntu (Google's customized Ubuntu based distro) are used by Google developers. He starts by saying 'Precise Rocks,' and that many Google employees use Ubuntu — including managers, software engineers, translators, people who wrote the original Unix, and people who have no clue about Unix. Many developers working on Chrome and Android use Ubuntu. Ubuntu systems at Google are upgraded every LTS release. The entire process of upgrading can take as much as four months, and it is also quite expensive, as one reboot or a small change can cost them as much as a million dollars across the company."
Bushnell also mentions that Google Drive will soon be available for Linux. Other news out of UDS: there was discussion of a GNOME flavor of 12.10, Electronic Arts reaffirmed that they "won't delay their Windows work for Linux," and Unity 2D is likely to disappear in 12.10.
You sound like a Redshat user. (or a windows troll). Only RH and derivatives don't upgrade.
Debian and derivatives are the easiest things to upgrade in the world. And, they are clean and stable machines post upgrade. I have about 30 hosts that were initially running potato (migrated between hardware using dump ... | ssh ... "restore ...") that are now running squeeze and a couple boxes of the boxes upgraded to wheezy. (that is the equivalent of upgrading from windows 95 to windows 7 /8 and having a stable system (hint: ain't going to happen).
Debian makes it simple and stable. They are also working on ability to do in-place upgrades between 32bit and 64bit in the next release too. Debian is really an amazing project. Former slack user, but now sold on Debian.