Re: [gentoo-dev] OT Who runs Gentoo was -> RFC: Userkit.eclass

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

On Sat, 03 Dec 2016, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> Google has hired a few core developers as has Gaikai. Both seem
> to be good, though not sure Google is giving back as much given
> their financial benefit. Gaikai isn't selling an OS, but Google
> is based on Gentoo...

That last bit is not true. While yes, Chrome OS and Core OS had a
Gentoo base, a lot was done of top of that.

Furthermore, most of Google's products (both shipped devices and
services) are _not_ based on Gentoo and never were. The base of
Google's production server OS is another Linux distribution, and
there, too, a lot of what makes the thing tick has no outside
equivalent.

Source: I worked on the relevant Google production teams for six
years.


Regards,
Tobias



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