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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. Great by Mensa+Babe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I clicked the link and here's what I got: "Server Error 500 - An unexpected error seems to have occurred. Why not try refreshing your page? Or you can contact us if the problem persists." with a cute parallax scrolling animation of GitHub logo falling down the Grand Canion. I've never seen 500 error on GitHub before.

    Linus writes: "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?"

    Why not? Because you just broke GitHub! That's why!

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

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    Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
    1. Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      18min ago: "Our DB has blacklisted one of our frontend hosts due to connection errors. We're looking into it."
      7min ago: "Our DB and frontend are friends again. The site is back up."

      From their Twitter feed

      Their response time to this problem is a great advertisement for their services.

  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. Temporary "move" of the master repo by Sits · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linus has said that when kernel.org is back up the github repo will be turned into a mirror.