[geeks] blastwave

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:18:09PM -0800, Francois Dion wrote:
>> Woah,
>>
>> big hit for the sun community:
>> http://www.blastwave.org/
>>
>> "All assets of Blastwave.org Inc. are frozen until further notice. All
>> Solaris(tm) related open source software work and services are
>> cancelled. All websites, documents and binary software packages that
>> bear the mark Blastwave or Blastwave(tm) are no longer available until
>> further notice."
>
> I don't suppose anyone here kept a mirror?

google cache seems to have the list of mirrors from the original site:

http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:eU2WrtEyi-QJ:www.blastwave.org/mirrors.php+blastwave+mirror&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

A few spot checks show a few of them are down, but a few of them are
still up too.

> It may be time for a new project.  I like Sunfreeware and use them the
> most, but I think they aren't keeping up, both in breadth and currency.

Agreed, but who has the time/bandwidth to do it?

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org