Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755417AbYDACPc (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:15:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751960AbYDACPZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:15:25 -0400 Received: from soloth.lewis.org ([69.28.69.2]:41630 "EHLO soloth.lewis.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751509AbYDACPY (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:15:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1832 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:15:24 EDT Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:44:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jon Lewis To: mirror-list-d@redhat.com cc: linux-kernel , centos-mirror@centos.org Subject: Re: Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important In-Reply-To: <47F1895D.7090509@kernel.org> Message-ID: References: <47F1895D.7090509@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-milter-ns-Report: lewis.org; NS 34307 ns2.atlantic.net. [209.208.42.140]; NS 34307 ns1.atlantic.net. [209.208.0.7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2055 Lines: 58 Getting a jump on the April Fools messages I assume. On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, J.H. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH8Ylc/E3kyWU9dicRAq9bAJ9h2lMO7abuLyhMQFsimqLVGGpcYgCfa4x1 > xHRv2IOLKqMv3Ntmx5jentc= > =pjFh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/