gLinux is a Debian Testing-based Linux distribution used at Google as a workstation operating system.[1] The Google gLinux team builds the system from source code, introducing their own changes.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] gLinux replaced the previously used Ubuntu-based distribution, Goobuntu.[9] gLinux is usually installed by loading into a bootstrap environment when it is first booted up.[10] When gLinux is getting started up, the root files are unpacked and the Debian installer starts to perform the installation.[10] Over the years, Google has focused on speed, scale, and data, which is the thought process that allowed them to move to gLinux.[11] Google was using Ubuntu before switching to gLinux; however, the two years of security updates it provided meant that planning for the next upgrade would take next to a year.[12]

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  7. ^ "Google переводит рабочие станции инженеров с Goobuntu (Ubuntu) на gLinux (Debian)". www.opennet.ru. January 18, 2015.
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  9. ^ Davenport, Corbin (2018-01-19). "Google's Linux workstations are switching from Ubuntu to Debian". Android Police.
  10. ^ a b Fata, Matt; Arida, Philippe-Joseph; Hahn, Patrick; Beyer, Betsy (June 2018). "Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops: How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud". Queue. 16 (3): 58–78. doi:10.1145/3236386.3264508. ISSN 1542-7730. S2CID 51925085.
  11. ^ Levy, Steven (2011). How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. United States of America: Steven Levy. ISBN 978-1-4165-9658-5.
  12. ^ "How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops". Google Cloud Blog. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
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