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Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:35:38AM -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
I'd like to donate some spare cycles that I've got to the build farm;
would someone kindly direct me as to whom it is that I should contact to
make this happen?
Well, we have plenty of cycles. If you have an exotic
platform, then it would be very interesting. But there are
already quite a few Linux boxes in the build farm, so the
additional value of one more is not too big.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your offer, but for the
build farm we're mostly interested in platforms we don't yet
have.
What's the platform you can offer?
Volker
Well, if you want exotic, I've got a somewhat recent copy of Plan9 in my
archive somewhere ;). Well, it's a livecd, and I've never booted it -
but it's still in my possession and I'm gonna' boot the thing after I
complete my "languages I have to try at least once before I die... so
that I can feel justified for every time someone told me about them and
I told them a thing or two about Real Programmers!"
Seriously, though, I'm a software development student, so I've got a
little bit of everything. Currently, I'm running with a BlueWhite64-12
box (it's OK, no one has ever heard of it) which is an unofficial 64 bit
Slackware-12. On the hardware side it's an Opteron 146.
I'm also running Slackware-12 proper (well, stripped - but it's got
everything I need; ssh, vi, libs and a compiler on board - Real
Programmers don't need GUIs!) on a 900 MHz Duron.
I've got a PPC G3 running OS X.
Furthermore, my "I just did something really stupid while logged in as
root and I need a box to replace it" box is currently running Gentoo
based Sabayon-3.4F. Granted, not many enterprises are running gentoo ;).
In my distro archive I've got:
The usual suspects as far as EL goes - CentOS, SuSe, etc.
Slackware 10.2 - 12.0, mirrored with 64 bit BlueWhite64 versions
NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
OpenSolaris.
Plan9 (no, I really wasn't kidding about that ;) )
And the usual suspects in desktop distro (Shiny Object Syndrome) and
obscure distro categories.
I guess the question I should be asking you is, what do you need? I
would really like to give back to a community that has given me so much.
If you've got something in mind that you need, I can probably whip
something up. Provided you don't want it compiled on a abacus - they
have really high latency and low throughput!
If you've got the blueprint, I'll try to supply the toolbox and man
power. Let me know.
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