* Thom May <thom@positive-internet.com> [030611 14:39]: > I work for Positive Internet - www.positive-internet.com - and am also > thom@debian.org . my boss recently suggested that we should > donate/buy+host an x86-64 machine for debian porting purposes, so I'm > wondering what the most useful approach to this is. That's fantastic! > Also, what sort of level of hardware would be best? I imagine that a > low end box with a decent amount of ram and disk space would probably > be fine? At this time a lowest of the low end AMD64 box will run you about $2k USD. It will include 2 Opteron 240 CPUs, an MSI K8D master mobo, ~ 1G of RAM, and a modest hard-disk. That is way more then enough for any porting efforts and we would appreciate such a donation. I am not sure how it would be used... and am hoping to start a discussion on the topic. Right now I can see three possible uses... 1) used for general development 2) used for automated builds (would require a lot more space) 3) automated and manual testing Any (or all) would be fine with me. Comments, Bart. -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/
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