public inbox for [email protected]
help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Darcy Buskermolen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Gavin M. Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Gforge-admins] PgFoundry Move
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:39:34 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
> > > My concerns with a plan like this are:
> > > A) I do not know linux as well as FreeBSD.
> >
> > 80% of the Gforge admins are Linux guys afaik, which is why we need
> > more FreeBSD help.
>
> Which is why at least 2 more FreeBSD guys (Stefan and myself)
> were brought into the fold a while back. I can't speek for
> Stefan, but I have remained quite on this while I absorb the
> implementation specifics of the current setup.
Ok. That's good :-)
> > > B) Can infrastructure be provided to allow for timely disaster
> > > recovery in the event of JD's hosting falling off the face of the
> > > earth, (much the same way the pg servers in panama fell
> off a while
> > > ago).
> >
> > We don't have this *really* in the case of most of the
> infrastructure,
> > and this isn't in place for pgFoundry right now with Marc hosting,
> > afaik. It is an issue we should be concerned with
> regardless of who's
> > hosting. That and backup. I've tried to address what's
> happening (or
> > not happening as I'm afraid) with backup before.
>
> Wether we have it today or not is one thing, but making it
> even harder to do in the future without having a solid plan
> is even more troublesome in my opinion.
Yeah. The question is more wether it's the right path to move down, if
it's been so hard to get there.
> > Unlike *BSD? Generally there have been distros like Debian and
> > Slackware that have been server grade for over 10 years and
> are solid.
> > I think the distro of the month is a unwarranted slam from FreeBSD
> > people who don't see that others see BSD the same way (Free, Net,
> > Open, etc) just with less choice for their respective communities.
> > There are lots of Linux distros. Some are better at the
> desktop, some
> > are better at the server. Coming up with a consensus of
> what to use
> > would be pretty easy to do. That being said, I don't foresee a day
> > that we'd use Linux just because everything else is running on
> > FreeBSD. Being consistent is a good thing.
>
> For example we raninto an issue here were we ended up with
> 100% distro lock-in because of a hardware vendor only
> providing binary kernel modules for one specific distro and
> kernel version. Granted that is not a fault with "linux" in
> general, but it did mean I had to support some one ofs where
> consistency would have been the preferred norm.
Yes, that's generally a big problem - only the commercial distros are
supported by the hw vendors. But AFAIK, few if any of these vendors put
out *ANY* drivers for FreeBSD at all.
But that's turning into a discussion Linux vs FreeBSD on technical
merits. Which is not the point I was making, and I doubt the one others
was. Technically, they're both good. They both have their good and their
bad sides, of course.
The point was one of resources.
//Magnus
view thread (57+ messages) latest in thread
reply
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Gforge-admins] PgFoundry Move
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox