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Linux Kernel Moves To Github

Posted by samzenpus on from the moving-to-better-quarters-on-campus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linus Torvalds has announced that he will be distributing the Linux kernel via Github until kernel.org servers are fully operational following the recent server compromise. From the announcement: 'But hey, the whole point (well, *one* of the points) of distributed development is that no single place is really any different from any other, so since I did a github account for my divelog thing, why not see how well it holds up to me just putting my whole kernel repo there too?'"

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  1. FTFY: Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And now let's all remain silent while the instant, distributed, cpu-intensive, encrypted https slashdotting of GitHub starts in 3... 2... 1...

    AND FORK!

  2. Re:I hope github people dont faint on the load... by sgbett · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they were just taking a second to resolve the paradox of Linux distributing itself!

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  3. Vintage accounts by Hadlock · · Score: 1, Funny

    My "pre linux kernel" vintage Github account is going up on ebay to the highest bidder!

    Anybody? ...anybody?

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  4. Re:It's just the Linux way. by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Funny

    oh, those commercial unix implementations or freebsd scale from a handheld device to a supercomputer the size of a city block? FreeBSD is still trying to figure out how to run on 8-way or more SMP without seizing up under high load (check the warning on their web site). Whatever cool things from the past it has, Solaris is going down the tubes under Oracle, to be a one trick pony to run Oracle on their (well, Fujitsu's actually) hardware only. Wail and weep, commercial unix boy, your world is collapsing, and Big Blue and a Penguin are stomping it.

  5. Github slogan by BitZtream · · Score: 3, Funny

    Github: Your center for decentralized version control!

    Or

    Github: Your hub for RCS without a hub!

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    Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager