On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 22:00, Olly Betts via cfarm-users <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 01:09:05PM +0100, Baptiste Jonglez via cfarm-users > wrote: > > - option 1: one much bigger machine, bare metal. Which (single) OS > > makes the most sense? > > > > - option 2: several virtual machines. > > I'd prefer option 2. My complefarm use is for testing on platforms I > don't otherwise have easy access to - either to periodically check for > new portability problems or to reproduce problems reported by users so I > can investigate more easily. > > I could install VMs locally for some of them, but either I have to > install each time I want one, or it ties up a chunk of local disk space > and then the VM is often rather out of date when I want to test > something anyway. > > > Which (multiple) OS would be useful? > > We don't seem to have Fedora or Gentoo installs currently.
It's easy to test those in podman containers, you don't need a VM. > > Otherwise, I don't have an explicit wishlist but if there are operating > systems which FOSS projects should care about portability to, it'd be > great to see them available. > > (It looks like there are rough equivalents to the current 186, 187 and > 188 on other existing cfarm machines. I would have said NetBSD, but the > existing host has come back online this week.) _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
