Re: No more Debian/Alpha?

[Tim Cutts <tjrc@sanger.ac.uk>]

On 15 Mar 2005, at 12:48 am, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:27:34PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de> writes:
> >
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >
> > > On Monday, 14 Mar 2005, you wrote:
> > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/03/msg00012.html
> > >
> > > Alpha will become SCC and will be availible via scc.d.o.
> >
> > In fact, there isn't even a reason why it couldn't become a fully
> > supported architecture, except that there is only one buildd
> > currently. Unfortunately, it is not clear what would need to happen to
> > change that.
> There are two Alpha 833MHz dual processor 1U servers waiting here. Paul
> Cupis is trying to get hosting for them. As soon as Debian gets them
> there's another total 4GB of memory and 72G of disk usable as 
> autobuilders.

So that's two of us offering.  Cool.  Hosting isn't a problem for us - 
we've got a nice fat GBit pipe to the outside world, and a netscreen 
firewall to keep any Debian system completely separate from everything 
else we have here - even separate from all the other DMZ machines.

We're also decommissioning a 32-CPU GS320 with 192GB of RAM, but I 
doubt I could get the go ahead to make that a buildd.  :-)

Tim

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