jlewis at lewis
Mar 31, 2008, 6:44 PM
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Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important
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Getting a jump on the April Fools messages I assume.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, J.H. wrote:
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> Afternoon everyone,
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> I and the other Kernel.org admins would like to announce downtime for
> ALL kernel.org machines (this includes all of the mirror machines, the
> public machines and the backend master). The downtime is scheduled to
> start on or around April 2nd, 2008 on or around 0001 UTC.
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> After much deliberation, research and argument in #korg (along with
> screaming matches between HPA and I over dinner) we are upgrading the
> kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD 7.0. This decision
> does not come lightly to the Kernel.org admins, and we would like to
> point out several key things that helped us form our decision:
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> FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux in SMP Performance:
> http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/06/1313218
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf
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> FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000
> http://www.freebsd.org/maketing/os-comparison.html
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> We feel that we can better serve our mirrors, our users and the
> community by making the switch, and we hope to have the transition done
> very shortly.
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> - - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
> Kernel.org Admin
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