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Linux Foundation Outsourcing Linux to Akamai (Privacy Issue)
Can the Linux staff at LF not set up Varnish, Squid, Git etc. for hosting?
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Akamai to host kernel.org, bolstering Linux development
Linux, with its 28 million lines of code, is a collaborative effort involving over 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 companies since 2005. The operating system is fundamental to various technologies, from smartphones to supercomputers, and is critical for the operation of the internet and world’s stock exchanges.
LWN:
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A new home for kernel.org
Akamai has sent out a press release saying that it is now hosting the kernel.org repositories.
Article about this: (funded by LF though)
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Akamai Picks Up Hosting for Kernel.org
Akamai says it has signed a multiyear agreement with the Linux Kernel Organization, which itself is managed by the Linux Foundation, to “provide infrastructure services to the project and its global cohort of developers.”
“We’re very committed to open source. We’re built on open source technologies like Linux. We’re heavy kernel users. We’ve been very active in kind of different standards bodies forever,” Akamai SVP of Product Jon Alexander told me. “Open source is very important to Akamai as a company and we want to give back to the community, and supporting the Linux kernel is one way we can do that.”