Seeking a New Home for Linux From Scratch? 32
Any Web Loco asks: "Linux From Scratch is in trouble. According to this explanation by Gerard Beekmans (the guy who started the LFS project) Shadowfax, the main LFS server, went offline at the end of October when VA Software ceased providing co-location space. LFS is a seriously geek-worthy project - might some of you Slashdot folk be able to help?"
Hosted by another distribution? (Score:5, Interesting)
Easy (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:SourceForge? (Score:1)
to this journal VA Software To Be Bought By IBM? [slashdot.org]
Re:SourceForge? (Score:2)
SourceForge is a last resort.
Re:SourceForge? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but only because Slashdot would be folding at the same time.
Re:SourceForge? (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:SourceForge? (Score:2)
Yeah, but by the looks of things, VA Software will be going away!
It's just barely alive now. [yahoo.com]
And I hate to say it, but apparently all of the people working there tend to agree. Not a single insider has bought shares in the past two years. [yahoo.com]
Probably not the best place to store software that you even remotely care about.
Re:SourceForge? (Score:2)
Well, by "lifetime guarantee" I meant, "lifetime of VA Software."
And by "I think we all agree that we're not going to see any pleas on SlashDot in a few months" I meant, "I expect SourceForge and Slashdot to both be unplugged from the net together, in a few months."
Talk to iBiblio (Score:5, Informative)
Better known as sunsite.unc.edu
Re:NO I will not help you ... (Score:2)
DO *NOT* slashdot this server... (Score:3, Interesting)
I agree that SF might be a good idea, but I'm kind of hoping things could stay the same : their own server with all their setups, great download speed and many mirrors.
Can't a university or even better yet a company like RedHat & cie. help those guys ? I mean, it can't be a bad thing to help such a project. Many (somewhat hardcore) geeks go to your site every day. That oughta be good traffic for someone somewhere.
But PLEASE, don't click the link if you don't need to. Do *NOT* slashdot a server that has limited bandwidth.
oops. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:oops. (Score:3, Interesting)
Because VA Software is going broke. They had two colocations spots with Exodus, but to save money they had to consolidate to only one colocation spot.
You remember Slashdot moving a week ago, right? Well, they got rid of all the third party colo servers at the same time, because VA Software didn't have the cash to support them any more.
Re:oops. (Score:1)
What about the LSB web site? (Score:2)
New ISP offered to take it under it wings (Score:2, Interesting)
So....it is wait and see til he respond back on this and see if he takes it up on my offer on this.
Perhaps Gentoo, might help (Score:3)
Plig? (Score:2)
Too bad for LFS (Score:1)
As good as Gentoo is, some of the Gentoo ebuilds [gentoo.org] needed to use hints [linuxfromscratch.org] from LFS. A clear example was How to compile Java 2 SDK Source (available from Sun) using gcc3 so that you can use it as a plugin for your shiny new gcc3 compiled mozilla [linuxfromscratch.org].
Again, I'm very comfortable with the amount of flexibility and ease of use that Gentoo provides me.