Popular Linux Orgs Freedesktop, Alpine Linux Are Scrambling For New Web Hosting (arstechnica.com) 12
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In what is becoming a sadly regular occurrence, two popular free software projects, X.org/Freedesktop.org and Alpine Linux, need to rally some of their millions of users so that they can continue operating. Both services have largely depended on free server resources provided by Equinix (formerly Packet.net) and its Metal division for the past few years. Equinix announced recently that it was sunsetting its bare-metal sales and services, or renting out physically distinct single computers rather than virtualized and shared hardware. As reported by the Phoronix blog, both free software organizations have until the end of April to find and fund new hosting, with some fairly demanding bandwidth and development needs.
An issue ticket on Freedesktop.org's GitLab repository provides the story and the nitty-gritty needs of that project. Both the X.org foundation (home of the 40-year-old window system) and Freedesktop.org (a shared base of specifications and technology for free software desktops, including Wayland and many more) used Equinix's donated space. [...] Alpine Linux, a small, security-minded distribution used in many containers and embedded devices, also needs a new home quickly. As detailed in its blog, Alpine Linux uses about 800TB of bandwidth each month and also needs continuous integration runners (or separate job agents), as well as a development box. Alpine states it is seeking co-location space and bare-metal servers near the Netherlands, though it will consider virtual machines if bare metal is not feasible.
An issue ticket on Freedesktop.org's GitLab repository provides the story and the nitty-gritty needs of that project. Both the X.org foundation (home of the 40-year-old window system) and Freedesktop.org (a shared base of specifications and technology for free software desktops, including Wayland and many more) used Equinix's donated space. [...] Alpine Linux, a small, security-minded distribution used in many containers and embedded devices, also needs a new home quickly. As detailed in its blog, Alpine Linux uses about 800TB of bandwidth each month and also needs continuous integration runners (or separate job agents), as well as a development box. Alpine states it is seeking co-location space and bare-metal servers near the Netherlands, though it will consider virtual machines if bare metal is not feasible.
Re: Billion/trillion $ corporations should donate (Score:1)
Dump wouldn't understand any of the words you used, you're going to have to write it for him.
The cloud is always stormy (Score:5, Insightful)
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WTF is Linux foundation doing? (Score:5, Insightful)
Rhetorical question. As we know, they are paying themselves bloated salaries to cosplay big shots and wasting the remainder on whimsical projects they pull out of their collective asses without bothering to find out from the community what they should actually be doing with their considerable budget. Oh, and they pay Linus so they can boast that Linus works for them.
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Grifters gonna grift. It's a symptom of society.
Slackware.com is down for everyone (Score:2)
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Use http instead of https and it'll be up.
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Slackware is one of my monthly Patreon donations. I can afford $1 each month to keep the oldest distro afloat and free of systemd.
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I'm SCRAMBLING to pay my mortgage (Score:1)
Seriously, if these "organizations" can't pay for even hosting... just open up a Patreon account or a $TRUMPCOIN or whatever.
What a bunch of little whiny people thinking datacenters should JUST GIVE THEM this or that.
Earn it. You're not an orange pigfucker POTUS idiot who deserves free hosting and $25M from facebook and $15M from NYT and lies 99% of the time.