At Google in addition to relying on Linux for its servers, Google has its very own Linux desktop distribution.
For more than a decade, Google has been baking and eating its own homemade Linux desktop distribution. The first version was
Goobuntu. You can guess from the name, it was based on Ubuntu.
In 2018, Google moved its in-house Linux desktop from the Goobuntu to a new Linux distro, the Debian-based
gLinux. Why? Because, as Google explained,
“Ubuntu's Long Term Support (LTS) two-year release "meant that we had to upgrade every machine in our fleet of over 100,000 devices before the end-of-life date of the OS."
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