Recent blog posts
GNU/FSF servers are moving
The GNU/FSF servers are moving between February 22nd and March 1st, 2012. There will be service interruptions during that period. There will be a multi-hour outage for most services on February 28th, 2012, starting at 10am EST (UTC/GMT -5).
Can you help the FSF get colocated hosting?
If you know a Boston-area company or institution that could offer us colocated hosting and bandwidth, we could use your help!
Introducing the systems team summer intern
Hi! My name is Martin Dluhos and I am very fortunate to have an opportunity to intern with the systems team at the FSF this summer.
Behind the scenes of the new GNU mailing list server
The GNU list server is a monster machine serving lists.gnu.org, lists.nongnu.org and a few other domains. Every day, it spools out over 1 million messages for 2700 mailing lists. Until April 11, our venerable list server was an 8-year old Fedora Core 2 (!) box equipped with 6 high-speed SCSI drives organized in two RAID packs to maximize I/O bandwidth. These drives were incessantly cranking every day, as Mailman forwarded incoming posts to thousands of subscribers over a saturated T1 uplink at the FSF headquarters.
Savannah and www.gnu.org downtime
Over the weekend, Savannah was compromised. Here's a chronological account of the events:
Silicon Mechanics to ship servers with free BIOS preinstalled
Silicon Mechanics has announced they will ship their A236 with a free BIOS -- coreboot -- preinstalled.
What's up with lists?
An assessment of the problems encountered recently with the GNU mailing list server.