The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux

Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by joejohnson on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @09:15PM (#4452383)

A lot of people I know at Google use a Mac.

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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by murz on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @09:19PM (#4452390)

The typical engineering setup is Mac laptop + Goobuntu workstation.

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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by jrockway on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @10:26PM (#4452603)

A typical engineering setup. There are quite a few of us using Goobuntu Thinkpads or Chromebooks. (Since you can't have code checked out on your laptop, a Chromebook is not as disadvantageous as one would imagine.)

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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by krzyk on Thursday August 30, 2012 @07:13AM (#4454005)

You have a policy that forbids you to checkout code on company laptops?

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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by thebigshane on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:37PM (#4456075)

This is discussed more up-thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452490

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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by tylerritchie on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:08PM (#4452729)

Does the chrome secure shell support keyfiles now?

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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by nickbarnwell on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:46PM (#4452834)

In the dev release it does. Info here [1]

[1]https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...

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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by Andrex on Thursday August 30, 2012 @12:16AM (#4452930)

Yesterday's update, 0.8.2, added support for them: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...

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