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OS Upgrades Powered By Git

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-good-idea dept.

JamieKitson writes "The latest Webconverger 15 release is the first Linux distribution to be automagically updatable from a Github repository. The chroot of the OS is kept natively in git's format and fuse mounted with git-fs. Webconverger fulfills the Web kiosk use case, using Firefox and competes indirectly with Google Chrome OS. Chrome OS also has an autoupdate feature, however not as powerful, unified & transparent as when simply using git."

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  1. Re:arg by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're missing a close paren (a worse crime than using "automagically".

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    Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
  2. Re:arg by Blymie · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're a missing close paren, oodaloop!

    YOU'RE A MISSING CLOSE PAREN!!!

  3. The Dam Tour. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My company is migrating to git for all of our versioning control. I got to be the person to fly to the UK and get everyone up to speed on it. I knew it was British slang but not the full connotation of such.

    I think you Brits need to make the next generation versioning system and call it fucker/bastard just to get us back.

    I couldn't imaging standing up in front of my managers manager. "Well yeah, we're moving to bastard next. Bastards not too hard to use. You just type 'bastard clone'...."

  4. Re:arg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks, I was already running low on stack space.