Why does Google use Ubuntu and not OSX or Windows?

Why does Google use Ubuntu and not OSX or Windows?

You can't customize OSX or Windows

They don't use ubuntu either they use linux

They have their own Ubuntu based distro

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I think Google has banned Windows use internally due to it being insecure. Although I assume they still use it for things they are developing for Windows.

I think employees are allowed to use OS X and other distros of Linux though. Afaik, Goobuntu is just a suggested OS to use, with some standard programs/utilities preinstalled.

Intelligence. They collect your data but they don't want others to collect their data.

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Huh. I had never seen that before.

>goobuntu
why is it so funny

they wouldn't want to use shit when you control 50% of internet traffic.

That's a funny way to spell Fuchsia, OP.

>inb4 just a colonel

>le "security as a product" fallacy
Kill you are self.

lmao just because you don't know how to do it doesn't mean it can't be done, you poor idiot

t. pajeet

These

Some products take more effort than others to secure. Products which take an annoyingly large amount of effort to secure are popularly referred to as insecure. Insecurity is not a property of a product in of itself but part of a complete user-product interaction. However, it is still reasonable to call products that are difficult to secure insecure.

Because they need something that works

They mostly use Macs. Only the back end infrastructure engineers use (their own flavor of) Ubuntu (goobuntu), the rest use Macs.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>t. mactoddler

Pretty sure they use Gentoo.
ChromeOS is based off of Gentoo.