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_________