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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. Debian Is Top Dog by devphaeton · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Debian has long been 'the example' IMHO. RedHat got all the fame and glory, but Slackware and Debian really showed what Linux should be like.

    I just wish all these projects (i.e. ubuntu) that base off of debian would give them more credit.

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    1. Re:Debian Is Top Dog by JerkBoB · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I just wish all these projects (i.e. ubuntu) that base off of debian would give them more credit.

      How?

      From About Ubuntu:

      Ubuntu is a free, open source operating system that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release.


      It's right there in the first sentence... Perhaps you want a large blinking banner at the top of ubuntu.com?

      A large number of the Ubuntu devs are (wait for it...) Debian devs, too. Ubuntu regularly contributes back to Debian. I'm sure there are political squabbles, but to say that Ubuntu doesn't give credit to Debian is nonsense.

      Bleh.
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  2. Re:Wikipedia by smbarbour · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmm... Let me know when someone finds a "carrier-grade" carrier. I have yet to find any carrier with 5 minutes or less of downtime per year. Our current carrier is at approximately 24 hours of downtime per quarter-year.