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Thomas Strömberg
Thomas Strömberg

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Dreaming of a Kernel Cafe

Remember the 1990's?

When folks blessed with bandwidth setup shell servers, and invited their friends to share in the bounty?

I just moved into a new house, and discovered that I was in this scenario again, for the first time in 20 years.

Today, open-source developers need bandwidth less than access to dev & test environments that differ from their own. What if I combined the two ideas together to create something new?

Thus was born the idea of the Kernel Cafe: Public Cloud Native Infrastructure, run by volunteers.

It's not yet clear to me whether this idea has legs, but you can follow along here to watch.

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E.R. Nurwijayadi

This seems to be a good breakthrough. Although I do not understand about the idea at all. Why do open source developers need bandwith?

And... I do not remember 90s. What is going on in that golden era?

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