Hi Andrew, On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:35:30PM -0800, Andrew Pollock wrote: > I note that one of the issues with the Sparc port is the the lack of a > developer accessible machine. At present, vore.debian.org is back on line; the underlying issue, though, seems to be that vore, like the buildds, won't necessarily *stay* on-line due to some hard-to-pin kernel bugs that keep taking the systems down. Anyway, I'm working with Stephen Frost (though "working" is a bit of an overstatement, he's currently waiting on me) to arrange hosting of a porter system with his employer; the space is all arranged, now it's just a matter of acquiring appropriate hardware. > I have at my disposal, an Ultra 5. Nothing fantastic, I know, but I'm sure > m68k's had less grunty boxes... It has a healthy amount of RAM, and I would > put a new hard drive in it (or would accept a hard drive purchased by SPI or > something). I think an Ultra 5 is probably a little light for our purposes: m68k's porter machine may be slower, but m68k also doesn't have, say, an openoffice.org port that might need debugging... Also, given the problems that consumer-grade DSL poses for system accessibility over the long term, I'd think that vore is still a better bet currently in spite of some past connectivity problems there, both connectivity-wise and bogomips-wise. Would you be willing to ship the system to Stephen if the search for better hardware pans out and vore proves unreliable in the long term? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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