Kernel.org Moves to Oregon

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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Back of the envelope.

[reality-bytes]

Just did a quick calculation for a Turbo Skylane gph into mpg (assume static weather etc) and it works out around 14MPG.

Now, I'm pretty sure there are a good few SUVs / pickups etc on the US market that do that sort of economy.

The economy of the Cessna looks even better when you consider it can take the shortest route (staying VFR and barring airspace restrictions) whereas the SUV has to 'dog-leg' around the road network to get where it wants to be. Plus the Skylane consumption is more or less constant. An SUV's consumption can be expected to spike when starting/stopping in traffic.

Sure, you could give it to a courier but I honestly can't think of a single one I would trust with an important server.

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[ergo98]

Wouldn't you just love to see the news stories that CmdrTaco reject this morning in favor of this one?

I would love to see the rejected stories. Slashdot should publish rejected stories via a voluntary feed, and let us (the readership) choose what is important and interesting or not. Obviously it would be vulnerable to spamming and trolling, but both could largely be taken care of with a half decent bayesian filter.

Come on Taco - do it.

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[rehannan]

already done

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[Kadin2048]

Uh, you mean kinda like Kuro5hin does?

Because that system works soooo well.