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Kernel.org Moves to Oregon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-way-to-travel dept.

Bryce writes "Looks like the main kernel.org machine has moved to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. "Last night, Peter Anvin took master.kernel.org (hera) down and handed it off to his friend, Javier. This morning, Javier flew it up here to Corvallis in his Cessna Skylane. This is the first time the OSL has had a server hand-delivered by plane, and so we were giddy as schoolgirls." Kees Cook, the senior IT guy at OSDL helped them get it installed and configured."

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  1. Re:Waste by agraupe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Possibly because flying a personal plane is a recreational activity for many people, and if you're building up hours for a commerical license, you have to go flying some place anyway?

  2. Too many eggs in one basket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I used to laugh at Microsoft's amateur network topology. They always made the mistake of clustering everything in to one place, where single points of failure would take out 3/4th of their net.

    So, we've got master.kernel.org along with what looks like an impressive part of mozilla.org... what else is going in there?

  3. trust by zogger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't know about you, but something as important as the actual linux kernel server I wouldn't trust to any random hired courier service to carry. When you think about all the other BS ways people waste gas on, something that critical is perfectly OK.

  4. Re:Server moved. News at 11. by ergo98 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, I said nothing about any sort of user voting or promotion to the main site.

    I would just like the ability to see all of the rejected submissions, with or without the ability for user comments. I have a general feeling that a lot of useful tech news is passed through Slashdot every day, but of course much of it gets rejected.