Google Gets Slack with Software Updates 94
An anonymous reader writes "While Google's open source project titled 'Slack' was released over a year ago, last week's Australian Unix Users Group Conference marks the first time that Google has ever discussed the system in public. Corporate systems administrator Michael Still helped to illuminate a little bit about how Google uses Slack and how their network of computers fits together. From the article: '"Slack is a source deployment system and it's the way we install applications on servers," Still said, adding Slack is based around a centralized configuration repository which is then deployed onto selected machines in a "pull" method. Each of the "worker" machines asks for its new configuration regularly or when a manual command is run.'"
Re:Name infringement? (Score:4, Insightful)
More seriously, re-read TFA summary: Google Slack is a configuration manager, and not necessarily Slackware-Linux-related. OTOH, The fact that the Google engineers used that adjective may be an hommage to the oldest surviving Linux distribution.
"Slack" is, after all, a perfectly valid ajective in the English language. Even though it has deep religious overtones for the Subgeniuses out there... This being said, Slackware is still, for me one of the best Linux distribution out there.
Mod Parent Up; Not a troll (Score:2, Insightful)
The distribution tarball is 28k. This is a tiny little one-man project that is little more than exactly what the parent said. There are 90234580928345 other dumb little rsync wrappers on sourceforge, many of which are MORE functional. Why focus on this one?
I'm not the only one who is getting sick and tired of everyone pulling out their e-penis at the slightest mention of Google and jerking vigorously. Nor am I the only one sick of half of all slashdot articles being nothing but spew from the Google spin machine.
CFengine (Score:5, Insightful)