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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. Re:Just saying. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can we just agree that both are awesome and ClearCase _really_ sucks?

    *frustrated user*

  2. Re:Time to shift focus to another kernel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is HAL such a good idea?

    I know that I can move a Linux installation image from one machine to another without a glitch, while Windows (which has a HAL) fails miserably if the source and destination machine vary in any non-trivial way.

  3. Re:Slashdottings aren't what they once were. by Teancum · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Part of this is because there seems to be far fewer Slashdot readers than in the past. The stupider ones have moved to Digg, reddit and Hacker News, apparently

    While I will admit there have been many Slashdot readers who have moved to other websites, I think the issue here is more that as a percentage of the web community Slashdot no longer is the dominate community of discussion. This is more because there simply are fewer geeks running around on the web any more as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other "social media" sites have more ordinary non-geek people.... any one of which can also post a link going viral that will dwarf anything Slashdot would ever produce. Many of the larger websites routinely expect a large number of visitors for some things they post, and can more than compensate for what happens when they become the focus of a lot of people at once.

    Slashdot will still bring a huge number of visitors to a site and for somebody doing a homebrew website it can be a big deal, but I'd agree that due to improvements in hardware and better software management there isn't nearly so much of a problem any more.

  4. Re:Just saying. by underqualified · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's this little project called Firefox that uses Mercurial. You might have heard of them.