The project Debian has announced that bytemark has donated 16 servers HP blade with modular storage arrays with 57TB of storage. The new server is housed in Bytemark's new DataCenter in York, England and is valued in commercial terms at £ 150,000 per year.
bytemark has based its servers on Debian since it started operating in 2002, something they claim was always a good deal.
With this gesture he has tried to give something back to Debian, in addition to sponsoring DebConf and launch your own package «symbiosis»To do server hosting tasks Debian simpler.
We cannot compensate for the effort of the thousands of Debian volunteers, but we can at least be proud to provide a substantial part of their infrastructure.
This donation will allow the Debian administration team to offer better geographic positioning for their services, improving their tolerance and availability. The extra storage will also solve capacity problems, many storage intensive services will be moved to Bytemark's servers as part of the integration process. Details of this process can be found on the Debian mailing list.
Hardware donated by bytemark consists of an HP C7000 BladeSystem that contains 16 blade servers:
- 12 BL495cG5 with 2x Opteron 2347 and 64GB of RAM each
- 4 BL465cG7 with 2x Opteron 6100 and 128GB of RAM each
And multiple HP storage arrays:
- 3MSA2012sa
- 6 MSA2000 expansion shelves
With 108 total storage bays, numerous 500GB SATA drives, some 2TB, multiple 600GB 15000 RPM SAS drives, for a total of 57TB of storage.
Today this capacity is equivalent to about 80 times the current Debian archive or 3 times the snapshot archive. But we must not forget that both files are always in constant growth.
Source: Bits | Taken from The GUTL Mailing List
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There is no point in using Spanglish, if the word already exists in our language.
If it is in the dictionary of the Spanish language, it is pure Spanish.
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sponsor -ra. 1. '[Person or entity] that supports or finances an activity, often for advertising purposes': «There were also small sponsors who contributed […] to the project being able to be carried out» (Torres Conquista [Mex. 1990]). The existence of this Spanish voice makes the use of sponsor English and its sponsor adaptation unnecessary. Equally superfluous are the derivatives (e) sponsorizar and (e) sponsorización, whose traditional equivalents in Spanish are sponsoring and sponsorship.
2. In many American countries the terms sponsor, sponsor, and sponsorship are used, equally valid and preferable to Anglicism: "A party organized by the sponsor of your team" (Country [Col.] 29.7.97); "The activity is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports" (Nación [C. Rica] 17.3.97); "In vain were the efforts to obtain the sponsorship of a manufacturer of cameras and recorders" (Dolina Ángel [Arg. 1993]).
Source: Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts. http://www.rae.es/dpd/
Both one and the other is valid and is not a reason for discussion, use the language forums for that.
0.0 call me ignorant ... I understood the part about donating equipment but ... in Spanish, how does it benefit Debian? it's apart I didn't understand it hehehe
In which the donated servers will be for the Debian infrastructure. Better redundancy in repos, more processing speed to build packages, every distro has a large number of servers for different tasks.
oh ... thanks 😀
Mainly fault tolerance by having redundancy of services in a different geographic location and adding more storage capacity.
Good for Debian. Since we are in this, when is Debian 7?
And since they have new servers, a facelift to the official page could not hurt.
If all goes well, I think we will have the official announcement in 2 weeks. 50 bugs or a similar amount remained to be fixed. I have been with it installed through a netinstall disk using it since December and I have not had a single problem.
I looked right now: 38 bugs found !!
It is true, it is like the PHP page, what a horrible page, but still, it is the most used web language.
Even though the PHP page is "horrible", it does its job very well. Whenever I am looking for a function, I find it the first time. And everything is very well documented. I would like other programming languages to do the same as PHP page.
Also the PHP is not the design. The layout is CSS.
Sponsori what? Maybe that's how google translated it. There are many words in our beautiful language to try to adapt word from English. Doesn't that sound better to you: support, sponsor, promote, encourage? Anyway, Interner is free ...
Wonderful contribution, I wish there were more companies willing to sponsor debian.
Does anyone know if Debian 7 comes out this year?
It seems that there are very few bugs left to fix (50 remaining according to @ Ruffus's comment - up there).
I hope it comes out soon 🙂
Hears! What a good contribution they have made, a considerable amount, hopefully many companies will do the same, because apart from collaborators, money and equipment are needed to maintain the development of projects.
But they are old servers ... in blades and in rack and tower servers they go in G8 servers as well as the MSA2000 is old hardware (the most recent is the P2000 G3 and it is from 3 years ago).
Suddenly the post-warranty support plan is more expensive.
Since there are more papists than the Pope, stop posting and just read. There is very good content around here.
Let's see if they announce Debian 7 and I am able to put Nvidia with it, what does Xfce bring by default? I'm interested in the latest Darktable 1.2… uhm, we're already yearning for PPA….
It seems perfect
PS: who cares what the RAE says. Write as you want
This "write as you like" is ignorant. You have to try to promote your language, because otherwise someone else can suppress you.
The RAE is not an authority, if you pay attention to it it is by your free will and because you want it to, but it does not represent any authority beyond the fact that people want it and ignore it out of IGNORANCE.
I deeply disagree with the decisions of the RAE, besides that it does not represent any authority for me.
Estimate:
the RAE SI IS the highest legal body in charge of the Spanish language.
The fact that the last changes that he introduced are considered a BURRADA and an absolutely MEDIOCRE leveling down of the language does not take away the legality of the organ.
I agree that it is a shame that they have accepted distortions typical of Spanish-speakers in the US as "registration" when the correct word that has always existed is "registration" and the like, but unfortunately it is still the official body that governs our language.
Officer for whom? For the spanish people?
Luckily I live in America, and here it has neither sovereignty nor authority.
In any case, no person (not even Spaniards) are obliged to submit to the RAE, anyone who does so does so of their own free will.
Maybe tomorrow your neighbor will have his own language academy and people will prefer that academy over the RAE. The "legality" of the RAE is completely absurd.
And the RAE can say a thousand things, but if people do not pay attention to it, its imaginary authority and its legality matter very little.
That people ignore it, it does not take away from the rae, its power, it is the same as governments, you can ignore it, but if a law says that it pio, it is pio, then you can do whatever you want. The other thing is that it seems very fail to me that derivations from Spanish want to tell Spanish what is correct.
Peace and republic.
@ pandev92
good friend, let's leave it at that, if you want to submit to an imaginary authority is your problem.
PS: The language is as much mine as yours; and I never tried to say what is correct, I only pointed out that the RAE has no authority beyond the people who voluntarily decide to listen to it.
Of course…, whatever you want, then as it is an imaginary authority, take an exam writing the Castilian as you want, then tell me what was the result…. It should go well right? Both these organisms do not have the authority to say how to write or speak well: D (irony)
"The other thing is that it seems to me very fail that derivations from Castilian, want to tell Castilian what is correct."
Sure 😀
+1 to the two comments.
eta vien, ke kada one ezcriva komo he likes, hah ci todoz noz understandmoz 🙂
Regarding the news, although I haven't used Debian for a long time, I'm with Arch and openSuse, I'm happy for them, this great distribution deserves this and more.
ok fan of the RAE, to read the dictionary and use win ****
What nice news I love Debian, I have two NAS with it 😀
Let's see kids, I've already corrected the little word .. 😛
A tremendous luxury for Debian to receive such a tremendous donation!
But Debian is worth that and more, it is a distro that has been quite maintained!
Keep in that way..
Regards!
Heartwarming post, sniff.
Finally the world is turning towards a solidary socialism, what a beauty.
Great. It is gratifying to have such types of entities that value Debian's effort to be the most important community distro in the Linux universe.
My respects to this community, as well as being proud to use Iceweasel 20 on my Debian Squeeze.
... I suppose that for the servers they would use a serious system, HP-UX for example ...
[..] encerio […] —————-> what an evil eye
HP UX is for Intel itanium processors. But of course a "serious" operating system will be used, DEBIAN will be used!
what good news. very well