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Re:Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users by jnbiche on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:00PM (#16248836)
Thanks for the summary of Cloud Shell, I was not previously aware of it.

Any idea why Apache and Gradle are installed in the root directory? Normally, these would be in `opt` or some such.

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Re:Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users by jarvelov on Saturday January 27, 2018 @08:29PM (#16249167)
Most likely because of this [0]

> any modifications that you made to it outside your $HOME are lost.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/limitations#custom_insta...

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Re:Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users by jnbiche on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:59PM (#16253120)
Well, that applies to the user, not to whoever spun the distro to begin with. Google could have put them wherever they wanted.

Anyway, not a huge deal, just a bit odd. And evoking my OCD: ...must...keep...clean...root.

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