The Linux Kernel Archives

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 3, 2005 @03:57AM from the huey-lewis-takes-us-back-in-time dept.

Jeremy Andrews writes "KernelTrap offers an interesting look at the history behind the Linux Kernel Archives, home of the Linux kernel. They start from the beginning in 1997, when kernel.org ran on a generic "white box PC" using a shared T1, to the present where it runs on multiple quad Opterons each with 24 gigabytes of RAM, 10 terabytes of disk space, and a gigabit link to the internet. Much of the article is based on an interview with Peter Anvin, also including quotes from Linus Torvalds, Paul Vixie of Internet Systems Consortium, Inc who donates the bandwidth, and Matt Taggart of Hewlett-Packard who donated the hardware."

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Hat's off to HP by oni · 2005-05-03 04:40 · Score: 4, Insightful

I'm really happy to see HP giving so much support. I'll definitely remember this the next time someone asks my opinion about what server hardware to buy.
Re:load average 1024??!!! by Dante · 2005-05-03 04:47 · Score: 2, Insightful

sure;
The proccessors could actualy be doing very little other then waiting on the disks.. I'd be more interested in output from vmstat.

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