Kernel.org Downtime Notice - Please read *very* important

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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

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