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Progeny Debian Halts The NOW Project

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-econoomic-times dept.

nicedream writes "Debian Planet is reporting that Progeny is killing the NOW project. " A reader also submitted the actual e-mail from Ian Murdock ? . It appears that the current economic climate has had an adverse effect on Progeny - which is not surprising. Ian's also got some musings on the state of computing/networking, which outline some of the thoughts behind the NOW project.

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  1. NOW is more than just Progeny... by cperciva · · Score: 4, Informative

    Progeny may have terminated their NOW project, but Progeny was not the first, and will not be the last to build NOW clusters.

    Please, when refering to this, call it the Progeny NOW project, to distinguish it from the NOW project.

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    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  2. Yeah, but not all that much... by raulmazda · · Score: 4, Informative

    When most of the developers were moved off of the project the only real code that was in a state that it was done was nullfs. The design of the rest of things had been done, and John Hartman had a rapid prototype of the token system done in tcl, but very little other coding was accomplished.

    I don't think that the code that exists is interesting enough (or substantial enough) for a hobbyist to pick it up and run with it.

    I'm not sure if Progeny will release the design docs...

    Though I may have a negative outlook on things... I ended up being reassigned to doing Web Monkey stuff instead of working on NOW (which was the whole reason why I left my prior job and went to work at Progeny).