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Home of OSU Open Source Lab:
http://osuosl.org/

Go Beavs!

In fact thats just what Oregon State University did when googles prices were too high. They replaced thier Google box with Nutch Search Engine and saved around $100,000 a year. Fortunatly Google apparently does not have any (or enough) bad blood about this to prevent them from taking the initiative to promote open source.

And don't forget about OSL, they haven't been slashdotted recently.

After the big middle finger they got from the OSU Open Source Lab last year: http://osuosl.org/news_folder/nutch Of course, in their defense, all the hard work their sub-department put into the conversion saved the university over $100,000 a year. Good work, guys!

Lots of stuff.

Most notably:
Debian
Gentoo
Freenode.net
Xiph.org
Drupal

Although, at least with the bigger projects, I don't think that any of them have all their eggs in the OSL basket.

I love the caption to this pic, yea . . safe and snug if you drive 10 mph the whole way and take no corners.

Was this all of kernel.org that was moved over? I noticed no interruption in service.

However, kernel.org mentions that, as of April, it was being served from "quad Opteron servers, each with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk." Bandwidth shows that they're routinely pushing almost 300Mbps of traffic.

The photos show a single, unimpressive 2U machine. Can someone clarify exactly what was moved over, and why?

Well, for those of you who'd like a straight (non-bittorent) download, The OSU Open Source Lab mirror (USA) has them. Check out:

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-10.2-iso/

ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2- iso/

Well, for those of you who'd like a straight (non-bittorent) download, The OSU Open Source Lab mirror (USA) has them. Check out:

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-10.2-iso/

ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2- iso/

In case you blathering folk didn't know, Oregon State University is home to one of the largest open source initiatives anywhere. Just go to http://osuosl.org/ . They host mirrors for lots of linux distributions (gentoo ebuild source, open source projects, and other stuff). It was only a matter of time that the government clued in on how it could save money by studying the guys at OSUOSL.

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/desktopbsd/DesktopBSD-1. 0-RC2-x86-CD.iso.torrent

RC2 is actually out, just not listed on their download page. I found it on the Oregon Mirror, however that mirror is extremely slow -- (20K/sec).

I'm hosting a mirror of DesktopBSD-1.0-RC2-x86-CD.iso

You might try some of these. http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/ http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/ http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/

http://osuosl.org/ the host of drupal uses plone. http://plone.org/

Actually, drupal.org didn't make the decision. OSL did since they'll be hosting and supporting the hardware locally.

As a followup, here at the pix of the Sun hardware. http://osuosl.org/photos/drupal/view

Oregon State University's Open Source lab has a tool specifically designed to find rogue wifi access point on univerisity networks, and it's available here: rogue detect

OSU Open Source Lab: Drupal's future home, here:
http://osuosl.org/

The list of project they already host is impressive:
http://osuosl.org/about/collaborators

A:.

--

http://www.gnosis-usa.com/
Revolutionary Psychology, White Tantrism, Dream Yoga...

http://www.reuniting.info/
Intimate Relationships, peace and harmony in the couple.

OSU Open Source Lab: Drupal's future home, here:
http://osuosl.org/

The list of project they already host is impressive:
http://osuosl.org/about/collaborators

A:.

--

http://www.gnosis-usa.com/
Revolutionary Psychology, White Tantrism, Dream Yoga...

http://www.reuniting.info/
Intimate Relationships, peace and harmony in the couple.

A lot of "successful" sites seem to be hosted at OSL. But really, how successful are these sites if they can't even raise $3,000 for a new server (before posting on Slashdot)? And how would tuition-payers at Oregon State University feel about funding such a service (yes, yes, they would probably say "open-what?" but once you explain it...) There are a lot of benefits of making a business out of this software stuff.

Dear friends and supporters of Drupal,

Quite a few people have pointed out that drupal.org has been slow lately. We know it's been slow, and have been working on optimizing Drupal.org; adding new features to help keep (evil) crawlers out, fine tuning MySQL and Apache, etc. The fact remains that as the result of Drupal's growing popularity, the server is saturated pretty much all day. This explains drupal.org's poor performance.

To make a long story short, our current server doesn't cut it anymore. Our unprecedented growth in traffic requires more and better hardware. To buy a new server we need your help to raise $3000 USD. Read more about the details below, or just click the Paypal donation button on the right.
Where we are now

Currently, drupal.org runs on a shared server paid for and maintained by Kjartan. The server is a single Pentium Xeon 3Ghz with 1 GB of RAM. There are about 20 sites running on the server, including some of our sites like http://drupal.org/, http://drupaldocs.org/ and http://cvs.drupal.org/. In addition to the websites, the server hosts our mailing lists, mailing list archives and CVS repositories. Last month, drupal.org alone served more than 3 million pages for 100 Gb of traffic (this does not include any of the other sites or services; non Drupal websites, Drupal mailing list traffic, etc).
What we have planned

In the few past weeks we have been talking to the Open Source Lab (OSL) at Oregon State University and they generously offered to provide free rack space, free bandwidth, free power, free backup facilities and onsite support. Scott Kveton, Associate Director of the Open Source Lab, explains:

"The OSL currently hosts several open source projects such as Mozilla, Gentoo, Debian, Freenode and the Apache Software Foundation. The hosting we do is to help facilitate projects as they grow and leverage an economy of scale by hosting them all in the same facilities. The services hosted at the OSL currently touch well over 20 million unique visitors a day and growing at a phenomenal rate.

As part of the hosting we do here, we offer other services such as DNS, database, backups, mail relay etc to the community to free up their hardware to do the "main thing" for their project. We have offered up rack space, bandwidth, power and our "smart hands" service to the Drupal project because we want to help a great project that is having a significant community meeting one of our goals; enabling communities."

In order to take advantage of this generous offer, we need to supply our own server.
What we need to get there

We would like to buy a Dell PowerEdge 1850 1U (or equivalent hardware) with two Pentium 2.8Ghz Xeon CPUs, at least 2 GB RAM and two 70+ GB SCSI disks with a RAID controller. The total cost of such hardware is approximately $3000 USD ... and this is where we need your help . It is time for us to move to a new home.

Once we have collected enough money to buy a new server, we'll get it to OSL's data center, and we'll move the Drupal sites and services from the current server to the new server. At the same time, we hope to grow our team of server administrators, as well as extend the services we offer to the community. Things we plan to provide include a subversion mirror, an infrastructure for nightly tests, and so on.
How we are doing this

As many of you know, Drupal does not currently have a non-profit or foundation status. We are working on this and discussing with other large Open Source projects how they have handled it themselves. This will help in determining what will be best for us. No matter what we decide, filling out forms and filing paperwork will take time and money. Time we don't have.

Currently all funds are held by Dries so the equipment purchased will also

Dear friends and supporters of Drupal,

Quite a few people have pointed out that drupal.org has been slow lately. We know it's been slow, and have been working on optimizing Drupal.org; adding new features to help keep (evil) crawlers out, fine tuning MySQL and Apache, etc. The fact remains that as the result of Drupal's growing popularity, the server is saturated pretty much all day. This explains drupal.org's poor performance.

To make a long story short, our current server doesn't cut it anymore. Our unprecedented growth in traffic requires more and better hardware. To buy a new server we need your help to raise $3000 USD. Read more about the details below, or just click the Paypal donation button on the right.
Where we are now

Currently, drupal.org runs on a shared server paid for and maintained by Kjartan. The server is a single Pentium Xeon 3Ghz with 1 GB of RAM. There are about 20 sites running on the server, including some of our sites like http://drupal.org/, http://drupaldocs.org/ and http://cvs.drupal.org/. In addition to the websites, the server hosts our mailing lists, mailing list archives and CVS repositories. Last month, drupal.org alone served more than 3 million pages for 100 Gb of traffic (this does not include any of the other sites or services; non Drupal websites, Drupal mailing list traffic, etc).
What we have planned

In the few past weeks we have been talking to the Open Source Lab (OSL) at Oregon State University and they generously offered to provide free rack space, free bandwidth, free power, free backup facilities and onsite support. Scott Kveton, Associate Director of the Open Source Lab, explains:

"The OSL currently hosts several open source projects such as Mozilla, Gentoo, Debian, Freenode and the Apache Software Foundation. The hosting we do is to help facilitate projects as they grow and leverage an economy of scale by hosting them all in the same facilities. The services hosted at the OSL currently touch well over 20 million unique visitors a day and growing at a phenomenal rate.

As part of the hosting we do here, we offer other services such as DNS, database, backups, mail relay etc to the community to free up their hardware to do the "main thing" for their project. We have offered up rack space, bandwidth, power and our "smart hands" service to the Drupal project because we want to help a great project that is having a significant community meeting one of our goals; enabling communities."

In order to take advantage of this generous offer, we need to supply our own server.
What we need to get there

We would like to buy a Dell PowerEdge 1850 1U (or equivalent hardware) with two Pentium 2.8Ghz Xeon CPUs, at least 2 GB RAM and two 70+ GB SCSI disks with a RAID controller. The total cost of such hardware is approximately $3000 USD ... and this is where we need your help . It is time for us to move to a new home.

Once we have collected enough money to buy a new server, we'll get it to OSL's data center, and we'll move the Drupal sites and services from the current server to the new server. At the same time, we hope to grow our team of server administrators, as well as extend the services we offer to the community. Things we plan to provide include a subversion mirror, an infrastructure for nightly tests, and so on.
How we are doing this

As many of you know, Drupal does not currently have a non-profit or foundation status. We are working on this and discussing with other large Open Source projects how they have handled it themselves. This will help in determining what will be best for us. No matter what we decide, filling out forms and filing paperwork will take time and money. Time we don't have.

Currently all funds are held by Dries so the equipment purchased will also

lived from a LFS distro: http://lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/2.6-ud ev-nptl-bootcd.txt package management: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~gerard/log-install http://linuxfromscratch.org/~gerard/pkgdel and http://lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/rpm.tx t reinstalling LFS (for toolchain updates): http://lfs.osuosl.org/alfs

lived from a LFS distro: http://lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/2.6-ud ev-nptl-bootcd.txt package management: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~gerard/log-install http://linuxfromscratch.org/~gerard/pkgdel and http://lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/rpm.tx t reinstalling LFS (for toolchain updates): http://lfs.osuosl.org/alfs

lived from a LFS distro: http://lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/2.6-ud ev-nptl-bootcd.txt package management: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~gerard/log-install http://linuxfromscratch.org/~gerard/pkgdel and http://lfs.osuosl.org/hints/downloads/files/rpm.tx t reinstalling LFS (for toolchain updates): http://lfs.osuosl.org/alfs

Killed Maintain? Actually we've had several internal releases in the last few weeks. We've had several bug fixes in the last several months as well.

The Bouncer is a pretty fantastic tool that we developed here completely in house. Mozilla likes its to the tune of 50 million downloads. There are several other projects that we participate in as members, doing what our defined role is for OSU; helping OSU participate better in open source projects.

All of the staff look like pretty normal joes, until you get down to Lars, who looks like he stepped out of the LOTR set (or maybe MIT). I feel like I should have to crawl up the side of a mountain to ask him a question. (And not "Are you *really* the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?")

Then again, maybe you do: the guy lives in a yurt.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Where in the world did you get this idea? They just hired another student infact to help out with infrastructure related needs. What is so closed about it? They even had an http://osuosl.org/news_folder/open_house open house not too long ago. Apparently you didn't make it to find out. Also, Scott/Corey/Jason are all well rounded intelligent people have do an excellent job. Kudos on them getting this going!

Someone posted some graphs for Mozilla's load balancer, Bouncer and you can clearly see when 1.0.[1-3] came out. You'll probably want to look at the bottom graph.

Someone posted some graphs for Mozilla's load balancer, Bouncer and you can clearly see when 1.0.[1-3] came out. You'll probably want to look at the bottom graph.

Here you go.

I mod this story (Score:-1, Troll). "Because it's source-based, it's notorious for its speed." What? Because it's source-based? What's the disribution I'm using right now based off of, pixie dust?

I think most people are "scared off" because they don't have the 4 GHz computer with a gig of RAM required to compile the entire system under a couple days, and if you DO have a 4 GHz computer, a few -O3 and -funroll-loops optimizations aren't going to amount to much.

Gentoo is a really nice distro if you have the system for it, but stop with the silly arguments. A few optimizations aren't going to amount to much, and if you want to learn how to put a distro together read the LFS book.

You may use this (info about it here).

It could be another solution.

Gerard of Linux from Scratch is my Open Source Hero! He thought me how to make my own Linux Distro and the support he provides by jumping into the list and patienty and accurately identifying the problem was too good. Once I got a reply from him over the mistake I had made, I felt certain that problem is gonna solve now. WIth so far I have observed Gerard has been very friendly, understanding. Some Linux guys are not so humble with their Linux undertakings and they tend to believe that they are doing some thing great and enterprenual. But being simple,.helping and enjoying are the things which we linux folks want.

They have versions for the G3, G4, G5, and other PPC chips.

mmm....well we bought some nice Dell boxen, and put Debian on em. Theres a lot of very nice sites to help:

http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+ Servers

http://linux.dell.com/

The only thing I wish debian had was nptl support as we run a j2ee server, but I guess well see it supported in sarge - just have to wait until sarge is stable :)

rpm2targz will convert the RPM into a .tar.gz file which you can then extract into /opt/ or whereever you so choose..

Grab it here

- RE those "It's inconsiderate to post this on slashdot":
"Now, I'm hoping that this will get seen by a lot of people and that if it hits Slashdot that some kind medical geek will help save my life."

- Mirrors:
http://uml.axpr.net/
http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/PAT- NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-cu rrent/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt

- Clarifications:
--he does not want a help fund - we've asked him.
--the gpg signature is valid, key is on the slackware 10 disc, and he keeps the private keys on a computer which is not attached to the internet.

You can start by pulling your head out and clicking on the mirror which works fine for me and probably everybody else that clicked on it. Since that didn't work for you or you didn't see it, read below.

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Hash: SHA1

Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 10:43

"Last post?"

Hi folks. If you're reading this, I thank you. Perhaps you'll have a role
to play in bringing about the miracle that I desperately need. First, I'd
like to apologize for the lack of updates lately in Slackware -current and
stable... I know there are a few outstanding issues that need to be
addressed. However, I've been too sick to work for a couple of weeks and
now I am away from my computers and at my parents' house in Fargo, North
Dakota where my only online access is through an AOL dialup. I have told
only a select few people about what's going on thinking that I did not want
the internet at large to know about this, that I'd get it taken care of
and get back on track without a major problem. Now, I'm hoping that this
will get seen by a lot of people and that if it hits Slashdot that some
kind medical geek will help save my life.

I've generally been a pretty healthy guy. Nobody I know would characterize
me as a hypochondriac by any stretch, so when I raise an alarm it tends to
be for real. I'm going to give a timeline and run through all the
symptoms I've had (so if that sort of thing grosses you out, you can stop
reading right now). For the rest of you, here goes. This is going to be
long, but hopefully somebody who can help will read it...

This all began quite some time ago, perhaps as long ago as May of 2001.
I was preparing Slackware 8.0 for release and working really hard. A pain
developed in my shoulder, and (too busy to do anything about it right
away) I ignored it and continued to keep working. It got to be pretty
bad and one afternoon in early June I was rushed to the emergency room
at a hospital in Concord, California. I was sweating, feverish, with a
weak pulse of around 50, experiencing chills and seeming to be on the
verge of passing out. The doctor who saw me did a chest X-ray and didn't
think it was too unusual. I was told it was probably bronchitis and was
sent home with a presription for ciprofloxacin which mostly cleared up
the problem. Still the pain in my shoulder seemed to vaguely remain.
By mid October of 2001, I was in bad shape again. My parents asked me
what I wanted for my birthday and I told them some more Cipro. They
found someone who was able to help me out with a 60 day supply (no small
task as this was right after the infamous Anthrax mailings when all the
newspapers were running articles about Cipro and people were trying to
horde it). I finished the two month course of antibiotics and felt
better. Not perfect, but significantly improved. I chalked the events
of 2001 up to stress, but in retrospect I am not so sure. I had
similar problems in 2002 and 2003 that were also knocked back with some
antibiotics, but the pain in my left upper back (and some kind of
"presence" there) never did fully clear up. Tests for TB came back
negative.

Fast forward to May of this year. I found myself complaining about "my
usual pain", as I had started to call it, more and more. I was starting
to wonder if I was even going to be able to make my annual camping trip
out in western New York state at the beginning of July, but I did go.
I figured the sun and a little exercise would do me some good, and I
did feel a little less like I was "fixin' to die," but upon my return
to California things started to do downhill for me again. This whole
time I was coughing up some strange stuff. Some of it was white and
reminded me of dental plaque. In spite of being a dentist's son I've
never had the best oral hygiene

We've released IA64 stages for 2004.3 (which the poster forgot to mention); they're available here or at any other mirror that has /experimental on it.

Mirrors:

http://64.12.168.21/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releas es/1.0
http://207.200.85.49/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/relea ses/1.0/
http://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fire fox/releases/
http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ releases/1.0/
http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fi refox/releases/

Official Torrent:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe.to rrent

Quit your whining, RTFA, get your shit together, make a decent proposal here, and maybe it can happen.

Quit your whining, RTFA, get your shit together, make a decent proposal here, and maybe it can happen.