Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important

Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important

[J.H.]

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Afternoon everyone,

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.

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:

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

FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000
	http://www.freebsd.org/maketing/os-comparison.html

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.

- - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Kernel.org Admin



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Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important

[Jon Lewis]

Getting a jump on the April Fools messages I assume.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, J.H. wrote:

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> Afternoon everyone,
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> 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
>
> FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/maketing/os-comparison.html
>
> 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.
>
> - - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
> Kernel.org Admin
>
>
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Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important

[David Newall]

J.H. wrote:
> we are upgrading the kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD
> 7.0.

Highly commendable.  You should take this opportunity to also upgrade
network facilities to meet the requirements as laid out in RFC1149 (CPIP).

Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important

[WANG Cong]

From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:18:16 +1030

> J.H. wrote:
> > we are upgrading the kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD
> > 7.0.
> 
> Highly commendable.  You should take this opportunity to also upgrade
> network facilities to meet the requirements as laid out in RFC1149 (CPIP).

What about RFC1606? Maybe kernel should include a net/ipv9 branch.
;-)

Re: [kernel.org users] Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, J.H. wrote:
>
> 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:
>

Heh, it's that time of the year already?

-- Steve