Did CentOS get an alpha yet
How does this one look?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160115818814
will it do the job or not?
- rh
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On 5/17/07, Abba Communications lists06@abbacomm.net wrote:
Did CentOS get an alpha yet
How does this one look?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160115818814
will it do the job or not?
Well.. depends on the job, etc you want on it. A 667 Mhz alpha is the equiv speed of a 166 to 300 Mhz Pentium box (if I remember the building speeds on the old alphas we had). It would probably take 6-8 weeks to compile the entire distro on it... but we would probably want only a ServerCD version.. as trying to fix things like OpenOffice etc would just not be fun without a bucket of cash.. and then it would just be a bucket of cash :)
What are the customers needs for hardware, software, services? How many people are going to champion this?
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Well.. depends on the job, etc you want on it. A 667 Mhz alpha is the equiv speed of a 166 to 300 Mhz Pentium box (if I remember the building speeds on the old alphas we had).
I think that this is an EV6 Alpha, in which case it is about the speed of a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4.
-steve
Well.. depends on the job, etc you want on it. A 667 Mhz alpha is the equiv speed of a 166 to 300 Mhz Pentium box (if I remember the building speeds on the old alphas we had).
I think that this is an EV6 Alpha, in which case it is about the speed of a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4.
-steve
When the alpha stuff was brought up on the list recently regarding the "need", I asked and there was some productive info given by you (I think it was) or someone else as to what to get "minimum"
:-)
That machine was a candidate according to the specs that were given.
I was bidding on it and was going to buy it for CentOS yet noone got back to me on the list fast enough so I didn't continue bidding...
Also, noone said if CentOS recv'd a machine yet.
Has anyone called HP or have an contacts in HP to get a machine donated?
Just like God has the biggest hands of all to bless people with... HP has bigger hands than I do in helping CentOS with an Alpha.
:-)
- rh
-- Abba Communications Spokane, WA www.abbacomm.net
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Abba Communications wrote:
Well.. depends on the job, etc you want on it. A 667 Mhz alpha is the equiv speed of a 166 to 300 Mhz Pentium box (if I remember the building speeds on the old alphas we had).
I think that this is an EV6 Alpha, in which case it is about the speed of a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4.
-steve
When the alpha stuff was brought up on the list recently regarding the "need", I asked and there was some productive info given by you (I think it was) or someone else as to what to get "minimum"
:-)
That machine was a candidate according to the specs that were given.
I was bidding on it and was going to buy it for CentOS yet noone got back to me on the list fast enough so I didn't continue bidding...
I guess that means it went foer more than the $50 ...
Also, noone said if CentOS recv'd a machine yet.
CentOS does not have an alpha machine donated, although one of the developers does.
Having said that there does not seem to be much interest amongst the current developers in the amount of work that is involved in producing CentOS 5 for alpha, so unless someone steps up that wants to do the work ten it may not happen.
Has anyone called HP or have an contacts in HP to get a machine donated?
Just like God has the biggest hands of all to bless people with... HP has bigger hands than I do in helping CentOS with an Alpha.
Not sure about that one :)
Regards Lance
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