Re: sparc developer machines
Hi,
There are some spare machines here. I'm in the CS department in Trinity
College, and we have two labs of sun machines which are entirely unused.
They're Ultra 5 and 10s. If these are any good then just say the word.
There are some Blade 100 and 150s around as well but they would have to be freed up first, not that they are getting much use either.
They are on the heanet network (http://www.heanet.ie/), so connectivity
wouldn't be a problem. The only obstacle would be that the only
external network access they would have would be incoming ssh. If this
is a major problem then there may some way to get them moved off the
college network onto the heanet network proper, but that would take some
time. (Along with the usual network politics wrangling, *sigh*)
If ye are interested I can have a couple of these boxes set up within a
couple of weeks.
If anyone wants to colocate here (Ireland), I'll see what I can do
about getting them hosted by heanet.
Sarah
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www.ducss.tcd.ie
Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> quoth:
> Hi,
>
> As a part of etch release qualifications [0], sparc must have at least one
> (preferrably more) developer- and porter- accessible machines. As
> vore seems to be intermittently down with hardware problems, it is
> the current showstopper for sparc, as pointed out by Steve Langasek. So,
> in order to meet this requirement we need some machine(s) and some
> hosting. It looks like the latter is harder to come by than the former.
> General requirements for such a machine, outlined by Steve are:
>
> 1. Colocated, with a reasonable expectation that the hosting arrangement
> is good in the medium-term. Remote console or power control is a plus.
>
> 2. A competent local admin.
>
> 3. A reliable net connection (in particular, hosting it at home on a
> DSL/cable line will not cut it, even though the bandwidth requirements
> for it are likely to be much less stringent than for a buildd). It also
> should not be too heavily firewalled or proxied.
>
> If you have any ideas on how to arrange something like this, please let
> the list know.
>
> [0] http://wiki.debian.org/sparcEtchReleaseRecertification
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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>
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