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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."

2 of 75 comments (clear)

  1. Telecom carrier? by PhYrE2k2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Telecom carrier? I'd doubt it. Internet service provider- fine- but they're not a carrier.

    Telecom carriers are Long Distance providers, and Ma-Bell providers around the globe. They are the ones that provide power into your home for your phone service as well as the service itself. They are the ones that do switching entirely on closed circuts.

    Carrier grade is usually coined as 5-9's (9.9999%) which is friggin amazing. It's what the systems are designed for, and they usually pull it off.

    -M

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  2. Re:Wikipedia by Khyber · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The on-screen clock changes once a minute.

    Could that be simply because OSX and Mac OS (versions 9 and below,) do *NOT* show the seconds that pass by? *points to his default-install 72-D version iBook running OSX 10.2.8 and his Powerbook 190c running Mac-OS 8*

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