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		dmoy on July 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a S... And gnucash, libreoffice, a couple copies of android, three other things that forked the linux kernel, and then all of apache to boot.

rhencke on July 25, 2018 [–]

And we'll call it something crazy, like a Linux distribution!

flukus on July 25, 2018 | | [–]

A linux distro is a bunch of package metadata and binaries, they don't push the code of every package into one repository.

dmoy on July 25, 2018 | | [–]

No if it's Google that's much too reasonable of a name, you have to prefix and/or suffix a bunch of stuff on there.

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