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Grex > Coop > #297: Grex: It's time to switch operating systems. | |
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cross
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response 19 of 29:
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Dec 9 01:58 UTC 2010 |
Yes, John points out some of the bigger issues; ie, terms of service and so
forth. I think most of these things will be somewhat settled in the next few
years, but haven't been yet. Then, where the data lives and so on is still
an important question.
With respect to OS, I think that FreeBSD is a good happy medium for now. With
Oracle basically killing OpenSolaris, I expect Solaris mind and market share
to dwindle in the coming few years. That said, as John points indicates, he
and I both believe that Grex can and should be a portable layer on top of
pretty much any reasonable operating system.
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remmers
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response 20 of 29:
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Dec 14 20:20 UTC 2010 |
Speaking of the cloud, Netflix (definitely a big-time enterprise)
recently moved most of its ever-expanding services to Amazon's AWS cloud
service, as opposed to beefing up their own data centers. Here's an
interesting post on the rationale, from Netflix's official "tech" blog:
http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/four-reasons-we-choose-amazons-cloud-as
.html
(http://tinyurl.com/3yqxs5s).
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cross
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response 21 of 29:
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Dec 15 00:44 UTC 2010 |
I just read a blog post that FreeBSD now boots on Amazon's service. huzzah.
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remmers
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response 22 of 29:
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Dec 15 17:04 UTC 2010 |
Cool!
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remmers
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response 23 of 29:
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Dec 15 17:40 UTC 2010 |
Ars Technica post: "FBI accused of planting backdoor in OpenBSD IPSEC
stack"
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/fbi-accused-of-planting-bac
kdoor
-in-openbsd-ipsec-stack.ars (http://tinyurl.com/32vrot7)
From the article:
"The prospect of a federal government agency paying open source
developers to inject surveillance-friendly holes in operating systems is
also deeply troubling. It's possible that similar backdoors could
potentially exist on other software platforms. It's still too early to
know if the claims are true, but the OpenBSD community is determined to
find out if they are."
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cross
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response 24 of 29:
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Dec 15 18:13 UTC 2010 |
Yikes! That's a huge bummer....
Yeah, we really need to switch.
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remmers
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response 25 of 29:
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Dec 16 03:23 UTC 2010 |
Well, it's alleged, not confirmed. And even if it's true, other OS's
might be similarly compromised.
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cross
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response 26 of 29:
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Dec 16 09:58 UTC 2010 |
We need to switch for other reasons. This is the last domino in the list
of reasons we went with OpenBSD in the first place.
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remmers
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response 27 of 29:
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Dec 21 14:39 UTC 2010 |
Here's a link to a blog post about accessing FreeBSD on Amazon EC2:
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-20-FreeBSD-on-EC2-FAQ.html
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kentn
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response 28 of 29:
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Dec 21 15:11 UTC 2010 |
(Where EC2=Elastic Compute Cloud)
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scholar
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response 29 of 29:
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Jan 2 04:51 UTC 2011 |
This item isn't going to be exciting until someone tells Steve' about it.
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