top | item 46439236 (no title) briffle | 2 months ago The OSU Open Source Lab gives machines to groups in their datacenter: https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/It has hosted quite a few famous services. discuss order hn newest petcat|2 months ago Which famous services?I doubt OSU is going to host F-Droid. It doesn't even sound like F-Droid would want them to host it. wtallis|2 months ago https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-moving-to-state-data-center/ mentions several major, famous services/projects that OSUOSL either has hosted in the past or is still hosting: kernel.org, Debian, Gentoo, Drupal, OpenWRT, OSGEO. https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/ also mentions hosting Mozilla at the time of the Firefox 1.0 release, and having previously hosted Apache Software Foundation. Closer in relevance to F-Droid, OSUOSL hosts the GitLab instance used by postmarketOS: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/10/14/gitlab-migration/ spoaceman7777|2 months ago F-Droid is the best known non-corporate Android App Store... Why wouldn't they be willing to host it?It's a critical load-bearing component of FOSS on Android.
petcat|2 months ago Which famous services?I doubt OSU is going to host F-Droid. It doesn't even sound like F-Droid would want them to host it. wtallis|2 months ago https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-moving-to-state-data-center/ mentions several major, famous services/projects that OSUOSL either has hosted in the past or is still hosting: kernel.org, Debian, Gentoo, Drupal, OpenWRT, OSGEO. https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/ also mentions hosting Mozilla at the time of the Firefox 1.0 release, and having previously hosted Apache Software Foundation. Closer in relevance to F-Droid, OSUOSL hosts the GitLab instance used by postmarketOS: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/10/14/gitlab-migration/ spoaceman7777|2 months ago F-Droid is the best known non-corporate Android App Store... Why wouldn't they be willing to host it?It's a critical load-bearing component of FOSS on Android.
wtallis|2 months ago https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-moving-to-state-data-center/ mentions several major, famous services/projects that OSUOSL either has hosted in the past or is still hosting: kernel.org, Debian, Gentoo, Drupal, OpenWRT, OSGEO. https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/ also mentions hosting Mozilla at the time of the Firefox 1.0 release, and having previously hosted Apache Software Foundation. Closer in relevance to F-Droid, OSUOSL hosts the GitLab instance used by postmarketOS: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/10/14/gitlab-migration/
spoaceman7777|2 months ago F-Droid is the best known non-corporate Android App Store... Why wouldn't they be willing to host it?It's a critical load-bearing component of FOSS on Android.
petcat|2 months ago
I doubt OSU is going to host F-Droid. It doesn't even sound like F-Droid would want them to host it.
wtallis|2 months ago
spoaceman7777|2 months ago
It's a critical load-bearing component of FOSS on Android.