Linux Australia have decided to cease running the Planet installation on planet.linux.org.au. I believe that blogging is still useful and a web page with a feed of Australian Linux blogs is a useful service. So I have started running a new Planet Linux Australia on https://planet.luv.asn.au/. There has been discussion about getting some sort of redirection from the old Linux Australia page, but they don’t seem able to do that.
If you have a blog that has a reasonable portion of Linux and FOSS content and is based in or connected to Australia then email me on russell at coker.com.au to get it added.
When I started running this I took the old list of feeds from planet.linux.org.au, deleted all blogs that didn’t have posts for 5 years and all blogs that were broken and had no recent posts. I emailed people who had recently broken blogs so they could fix them. It seems that many people who run personal blogs aren’t bothered by a bit of downtime.
As an aside I would be happy to setup the monitoring system I use to monitor any personal web site of a Linux person and notify them by Jabber or email of an outage. I could set it to not alert for a specified period (10 mins, 1 hour, whatever you like) so it doesn’t alert needlessly on routine sysadmin work and I could have it check SSL certificate validity as well as the basic page header.