[CentOS-devel] Getting CentOS up to date on SPARC

[Karanbir Singh]

Kevan Benson wrote:
>> If you are interested, and have the time to spend this might be
>> something you can get involved with ?
> 
> I would love to donate time, but don't have any.  I DO have quite a few Netra 
> T1 105's I was planning to try to sell.  Perhaps donating 1 or 2 would help.  
> Older and slower than the X1's though.

If people are interested in helping with the testing and development 
side of things - rather than building itself, these box's would come in 
handy.

What part of the world are you located in ?

> 
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/Netra_t1_105_shared/spec.html
>> Would a NetraX1 be beefy enough to be a build box ?
> 
> I've often wondered that, what sort of hardware do you guys generally devote 
> to a build box?

There are quite a few box's being used in the i386 and x86_64 
buildsystems, a couple of Sun V20z's and home brew AMD64's and Xeon's 
and P-4's. Lots of ram and lots of drive space.

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