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DIY Carrier Grade Linux with Debian

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cool-for-your-home-switchboard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Carrier Grade Linux, once the domain of big-bucks Bells and commercial software vendors, just became more attainable for universities, companies running high-availability web services, and average Linux hackers interested in learning what goes into the world's most reliable, maintainable, and available systems. The Debian project, backed by HP, has launched the Debian-Carrier Grade Linux subproject, and registered Debian-CGL with version 2.02 of the CGL spec. LinuxDevices has created a simplified version of the registration form that lets you see which Debian packages to apt-get, and which packages you'll have to download and compile out side of Debian, in order to get your own Carrier Grade Linux setup."

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  1. carrier-grade linux by spud603 · · Score: 3, Funny

    An excellent example of the clarifying power of hyphens.

  2. Carrier grade? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Personally I'd rather wait for torpedo grade Linux.

    1. Re:Carrier grade? by dreamchaser · · Score: 2, Funny

      Personally I'm waiting for Food Grade Linux.

    2. Re:Carrier grade? by jc42 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You want a Linux designed to blow up and destroy ships?

      Even if we get this capability in linux, it'll be ridiculed for being years behind Windows. (That's one of about 1.4 million online pages about this incident.)

      It's sorta like the constant chant that linux "isn't ready for the desktop" because it doesn't treat its users as horribly as Windows does. Similarly, linux can't be considered "battlefield ready" until it can duplicate the disasters that the military has come to expect from their software.

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    3. Re:Carrier grade? by ozmanjusri · · Score: 2, Funny
      theres no information here on whenever or not penguins are edible

      Yes, they are edible, and have been on the menu for a long time. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica2/ask/new/Peng uins_as_food_for_humans.txt The flavour is ok - sort of halfway between dolphin and bald eagle.

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  3. For those of you who don't know... by vishbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Carrier-grade" means that the server pipes all incoming data directly to the NSA.

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  4. CARRIER HAS ARRIVED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    apt-get install interceptors

  5. Re:I had no idea what carrier grade means by jc42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, my first thought was "Hey, linux isn't just for toasters anymore; now they're putting it into air conditioners."

    I do wonder how long it'll be before Carrier sends them a C&D letter.

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    Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.