Re: CRIME Open Source Development Lab

From: Zot O'Connor (zot@private)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 17:05:46 PDT

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    On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:55, Crispin Cowan wrote:
    > Quinby, Kris (MED) wrote:
    > 
    > >The US headquarters of the Open Source Development Lab is in Beaverton,
    > >OR.
    > >
    > >http://www.osdl.org/
    > >
    > However, OSDL is largely a "lights out" machine room, and most of the 
    > OSDL developers are distributed around the world. This is an interesting 
    > change of employment for these people, but AFAIK, it does not mean that 
    > Linus and Andrew are moving to Portland.
    > 
    
    Well, had any of y'all attend attended last week's PLUG you would have
    seen Tim the director of OSDL talk.
    
    Many of the developers are local, but not Linus and Andrew.  They
    largely supply machine time for projects to be tested on equipment.  If
    you have a project that meets their desires (or their sponsor's
    desires), then it will get queued and tested.
    
    Why is this important?  Most people do not have 4Gigs of bandwidth to
    test on.  Most people do not have 4 ways, 8 ways, and 32 ways to test
    on.
    
    So if you are writing the latest locking mechanism for apache, you can
    request a test on a 32 way and be scheduled.
    
    The really cools start when you realize they do all of this
    remotely.....
    
    
    > Crispin
    -- 
    Zot O'Connor
    
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