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Google works with a Debian developer to make COVID-19 research easier on Linux
The COVID-19 pandemic has made life harder for pretty much everyone. People have lost jobs, businesses have closed, and worst of all, countless people have lost their lives. Thanks to the hard work of scientists, however, we finally have vaccines rolling out and normalcy is on the horizon.
Medical research surrounding COVID-19 isn t over though, as scientists still have plenty of work to do. Olek Wojnar, a developer of the Linux-based Debian operating system, has been working to help these scientists by packaging some software for easy installation on Linux. One of those packages was Google s build software Bazel. Upon finding out about Wojnar s efforts, Google offered to help with the process.