Purdue University computer science student, Sambhav S. has achieved an extraordinary technical feat: getting a full Linux distro to boot directly from Google Drive. It all started when a friend managed the already impressive feat of booting Linux from a Network File System. But being a self-proclaimed competitive soul, Sambhav decided to go bigger. In what they call a “ragged screech of madness,” the developer landed on the idea of booting an operating system from Google’s cloud storage platform.
“Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her,” Sambhav explains. “I had to prove that I could create something harder, something better, faster, stronger.”
