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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.
Use Debian stable. Yeah, you'r a few years behind the latest and greatest, but it works far better than Ubuntu if stability is what you're after. In fact, I've got several Debian servers that have gone through several stable updates with zero breakage. There's a reason they are slow, because it "Just Works".
Ubuntu simply has a shorter release cycle, thus is more bug-ridden.
Stop trolling. Unity is unusable (for many, many people). He should know that before trying it, so that he can prepare himself in case he needs to revert. He *may* like it, in which case the warning won't do any harm.