[Gllug] Linux on the BBC (news site, not the computer, sorry!)

[Gordon Joly]

At 10:56 +0000 2001-08-20, Simon Stewart wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:41:03PM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>>     IT units serve discrete areas, and work independantly, although other
>>  areas may need to access the results. There is as much variation between the
>>  different sections as anywhere else, although I do hear persistent rumours
>>  that the research department is actively engaged in Linux development.
>
>I know for a fact that various departments within the BBC use Linux
>for a variety of purposes --- typically for web serving.


Solaris on the big public webservers?

>  I also know
>that the at least one research department was using Linux for
>development as long ago as 1997; I've helped debug some of their code
>while working for Classic.
>
>As far as the IT side of things goes, the beeb appear to have some
>very competent people working for them, though the resources are a
>little limited.


The Beeb is a very large organisations. Did you that R & D (at 
Kingswood Warren) has two firewalls - one to the outside world and 
one to the rest of the BBC?



>
>Wasn't there a spate of articles about this a while ago?
>
>http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1176/1/


Written by a certain Damion Yates. who happened to work at ... 
Kingswood Warren:-)


>
>Would be a good place to start....
>
>Cheers,
>
>Simon


Gordo




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