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I had enough trouble with them that I don't even consider.
Such as? If you prefer, of course.
Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
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Re: Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
#32It looks as a job for Cloudflare:
https://cloudflaremirrors.com/
But i don't know who is responsible for that.
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Hetzner has a great price but it plays not in the same league as AWS. It's cheap and good enough for some applications but I wouldn't call Hetzner a professional service.
Sorry, but could you point out what is not professional? Not everyone needs a UI wrapper that offers tons of OSS services with high prices.
Re: Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
#34I haven't looked into it, so there might be a good reason, but why isn't peer-to-peer technology utilized more and more for stuff like this? I had hoped that BitTorrent would have made these things a solved problem. I looked into Storj earlier, but it seemed too controlled/unpredictable/centralized. Anybody have some good insights into this?
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Software In The Public Interest Inc. (creators of free desktop) is incorporated in New York so they have to follow US sanction law anyways.
Maybe it's time to consider changing it to another country which is actually OSS friendly and doesn't change all the time their politics. PS: Sorry for the off-topic discussion.
RISC-V International moved from California (IIRC?) to Switzerland for basically this reason.
Re: Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
#36The WireGuard project is also in the same situation, due to Equinix Metal shutting down. If anybody would like to host us, please reach out to team at wireguard dot com. Thanks!
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, but could you point out what is not professional? Not everyone needs a UI wrapper that offers tons of OSS services with high prices.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360708
How is this Hetzner's fault (or concern?)
"Hey your customer is hosting a website with random pictures on it. One of them of me is unflattering. Please make them fix it"
Re: Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
#38I haven't looked into it, so there might be a good reason, but why isn't peer-to-peer technology utilized more and more for stuff like this? I had hoped that BitTorrent would have made these things a solved problem. I looked into Storj earlier, but it seemed too controlled/unpredictable/centralized. Anybody have some good insights into this?
I think it's the same reason PGP never caught on. The learning curve is just too steep.
There are 3 major concepts: understanding how to run the comnand, understanding the idea of public key crypto, and actually using it (i.e. NOT imaging the ISO unless the signature passes).
What it needs is something like a torrent client that 1) doesn't let you download unless you supply the expected SHA first, and perhaps 2) that it verifies that the hash came from the signed webpage where you got the torrent link. Too many people (myself included) think it's not going to happen to them (download a backdoored program/OS).
After 20 years in the industry I'm just now learning how certificates work and how to work with them.
Re: Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
#39The WireGuard project is also in the same situation, due to Equinix Metal shutting down. If anybody would like to host us, please reach out to team at wireguard dot com. Thanks!
Hey! Just wanted to say thank you for wireguard :)
Hope you find a host soon!
Re: Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
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Aren't they (Red Hat) one of the biggest contributor to Wayland ?
Red hat contribute a lot but they don't pay well. I believe their finances are tight.
Red Hat's gambit has always been to hire engineers to do good work on Linux broadly, in many areas. As opposed to just dropping crates full of money at random on projects
Of course they still get tarred and feathered with the "Red Hat wants to control Linux!" brush because they...contribute the bulk of development to projects like GNOME