[Debian-NYC] Google replaces custom Linux distro with Debian as default Google Compute Engine OS!!
Congrats to our own fellow DebianNYCer, Jimmy Kaplowitz and his Google
coworkers for getting this done!! (This is some great publicity for
Debian)
Quote from informationweek article:
"Several Google developers are regular contributors to Debian and may
have played a role internally in arguing for the switch. One of them,
Jimmy Kaplowitz, a site reliability engineer at Google, said in a blog
May 9 that Google was using the moment of Debian's 7.0 or "wheezy"
release to make the switch. The 7.0 version is regarded as possessing
hardened security and improved 32/64-bit compatibility.
...
"Going forward, Debian will be the default image type for Compute
Engine," Kaplowitz announced in the May 9 blog. He signed it as a
Google engineer and "Debian developer." Compute Engine will support
the use of either Debian 7.0 or the stable 6.0 version, known as
"squeeze." Debian 7.0 was released earlier this week after two years
of development."
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/infrastructure/googles-cloud-drops-custom-linux-for-deb/240154669
http://www.zdnet.com/debian-linux-now-google-compute-engines-default-os-7000015297/
http://gigaom.com/2013/05/12/the-week-in-cloud-google-picks-debian-for-gce-amazon-console-manages-windows-aws-workloads-adobe-braves-user-wrath/
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/08/debian-will-serve-as-the-default-os-for-google-compute-engine/
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-development/google-compute-debian-115986
Cheers,
-Brian
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