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Where's that tree?

Where's that tree?

Posted Sep 30, 2011 19:54 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)
Parent article: Where's that tree?

As a professional (shut *up*) system administrator, I'd be *very* curious to hear what precisely it is that's taking this long about getting the site back on line?

Where was it hosted, by whom; was the hosting donated? Is there a reason why forensics might be blocking availablility, yada yada yada...


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Where's that tree?

Posted Sep 30, 2011 20:19 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

the hosting is donated, I don't remember where (it's all documented at kernel.org ;-)

I'm also interested in what has eaten up so much time. I suspect that it's taken days to weeks to just read all the data from original sources to compare it to what they have, but even so it's longer than I would have expected.

Where's that tree?

Posted Sep 30, 2011 20:39 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

It was hosted at OSU.

As for why it's taking so long, consider how much anybody involved is likely to want to go through this kind of thing twice. A lot of care is being taken to ensure that the restored kernel.org is more secure than it was before.

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