Inside the Open Source Lab 105
FreeFooOpenFighter writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. They currently provide hosting for an impressive list of projects including, among many others, the Mozilla Foundation, Debian GNU/Linux, and Gentoo Linux. According to the informative article, they plan to continue to donate hosting with their two OC48s to FOSS projects meeting their criteria."
Re:Google is down!!! (Score:2)
Re:Google down - Rejected Story (Score:2)
Re:OMFG lol GOOGLE (Score:1, Offtopic)
On behalf of the Rest of the World (Score:5, Insightful)
here are four (4) words that are never said enough to all the people involved in FOSS, they are free and no licence is required to say them:
Thank You Very Much
best wishes
The Rest Of the World(TM)
Re:Yes, thank you (Score:2)
Re:On behalf of the Rest of the World (Score:2, Funny)
i always say,
thank you double plus much!!
Re:On behalf of the Rest of the World (Score:1)
Re:On behalf of the Rest of the World (Score:1, Insightful)
To borrow from Dick Cheney,
Go fuck yourself!
Cheers, mate!
Re:On behalf of the Rest of the World (Score:1)
Re:On behalf of the Rest of the World (Score:1)
Re:Being ontopic.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Being closed to the public is probably going to happen with any "lab" at a university, but I'd bet that there are quite a few opportunities for student involvement with the lab if you know where to look.
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As for alienating a large portion of campus, I have no idea how you got that idea. Showboating and self-important ranting? What exactly does open source showboating look like?
I would say we help the academic environment by providing great opportunities for students.
The OSL has actually brought in quite a bit of money to the University.
Re:Being ontopic.. (Score:1)
It looks a lot like www.osuosl.org.
(I'm going to take the karma hit because kveton doesn't deserve it.)
Shut up. You're the perfect example of anti-open source showboating. Are you doing anything to help open source? Didn't think so. Show some respect for the OSL. Would you prefer that people stop hosting or mirroring projects because they don't have sufficient hosting?
Do you even read your own BS, Mr. Anonymous Coward? Coward indeed.
Re:Being ontopic.. (Score:1)
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The Bouncer [osuosl.org] is a pretty fantastic tool that we developed here completely in house. Mozilla likes its to the tune of 50 million downloads [spreadfirefox.com]. There are several other projects that we participate in as members, doing what our defined role is for OSU; helping OSU participate better in open source projects.
Re:Being ontopic.. (Score:1)
Do you participate in Maintain? I didn't think so. The users of Maintain do and all of them have the same access to the SVN repository as the rest do.
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here's some info (Score:1, Informative)
sf.net (Score:1)
Re:sf.net (Score:5, Informative)
Re:sf.net (Score:2)
SF.net, until recently, ran on 1 server and 1 backup. Now I think they have 4 front-line servers and 2 backup (total of 6).
I'm sure many OSS projects have more hardware than SF.net (in fact I know the projects I host at SourceFubar.Net do).
There's a difference between "Doing It", and "Doing it Right". SF.net is a case of the former.
Re:sf.net (Score:2)
I am almost offended when I see MIT, Stanford on a project list. It's not like a corporation that has a copyright lifespan. The school names never scrubs off, they last forever! When the developers are dead, the schools name is still associated with the code, project, credit....
Re:sf.net (Score:4, Interesting)
My only real beef in that regard, is that SF.net is not Open Source at all. Their code isn't Open Source, their formats are not Open Source, and they are wholly a 100% proprietary entity. They're just using the OSS community to get them visibility with corporate sponsors.
One of my former colleagues used to work for them. When they released 1.0 of the proprietary SF.net codebase, all of the developers were immediately fired. It was like "Thanks for helping us reach this wonderful milestone. Now we can become profitable. You're all fired."
You can't even download the last version of their OSS code and use it to run your own version of a version control hosting solution. If you wanted to migrate away from SF.net and export your projects, bugs, files, etc. you can't... because there's nothing else out there to import that data into. Its just like Microsoft documents... once you get your data in, you can't get it back out.
That also doesn't take into account how many things they've crippled in the name of "security" there. Mailman (no mbox downloads, no search, no offline use of archives), cvs (no deletions, no branches), etc.
Pitiful.
Re:sf.net (Score:3, Informative)
The developers that were laid off were not fired for completing 1.0 of SF.net as you imply. They were laid off along
Re:sf.net (Score:3, Interesting)
I've only contributed patches, fixes, documentation and code to about 300 OSS projects over the last 10+ years. I only provide free, gratis hosting to OSS projects (using 100% Open Source tools, unlike SF.net). I only host dozens of mailing lists for OSS projects, gratis. I'm only the maintainer of about a dozen OSS projects myself.
So you're right, not much at all.
Re:sf.net (Score:2)
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Don't get me wrong: what SF do is great and it's a non trivial task. But when we had sufficient resources, we moved over to our own systems where we had better control over such technical issues.
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SourceForge is great.. Most OSS apps out there
How about some security projects (Score:1, Offtopic)
Or how about help developing a java operating system for high security. [sourceforge.net]
Re:How about some security projects (Score:2)
http://bstring.sf.net/ [sf.net]
Its not exactly the C library per se, but instead a complete substitute for one part of the C library that is the source for a lot of headaches and security issues; namely strings.
Re:There's one in every crowd (Score:1)
So why isn't OSU using Moodle? (Score:2)
As a side thought... (Score:1)
Also, do we need to have SF vs. OSL flaming? Either way, we have repositories for the OSS world to work with. Most of the stuff I use is over at SF for both Linux and Windows. However, if something is homed at OSL, that's cool too.
Re:The OSL is a joke (Score:5, Insightful)
Talk with our students, talk with all of our customers, talk with Mozilla, Gentoo, Debian, KernelTrap and ask them how much we suck. Lemme know how that goes for you.
The running joke is anonymous cowards that don't have the backbone to stick behind what they say.
Re:The OSL is a joke (Score:1)
In addition to open source development activities, they are providing reliable hosting to some of the largest open source projects around.
What about education, you say? The OSL is providing u