Hi all.(I'm traveling domestically for the whole December, so some of my emails may have messed up subject lines and/or gpg sigs)
On 2025-11-18 03:24, Thorsten Glaser via cfarm-users wrote:
On Sat, 15 Nov 2025, Collin Funk via cfarm-users wrote:I think Hurd would make a good choice to help with portability of C/C++ programs for a couple of reasons.I’d love to have a Hurd box to debug things like the segfaulting of GNU CVS in the testsuite. There are Debian porterboxen, but for ports architectures they’re harder to get at.
I counted 3 for hurd. I have some experience in managing (and crashing) hurdy VMs and I could set up a few hurdy VMs alongside cfarm{420..422,430}, on the "big fat AMD server". But it's better to do it after I successfully switch my ISP, otherwise it could be a lot of extra work for cfarm-admins. In the meantime, I should take my time to work out the watchdoggy script(s) to detected crashed hurdy VMs and auto reset them. I'm offering this, because the OSUOSL people may not be willing to do it.
That being said...in other news, I obtained a Talos 2 board earlier this year and ported a semi-working Proxmox to ppc64el on Debian bookworm. I'm not sure if POWER9 would still be useful for people on this list, but life has been changing drastically for me this year so I have not really had the chance to offer hosting to the cfarm. We have a Blackbird, but we don't seem to have enough diversity on powerpc. If POWER9 is still useful for some people, I could set up some powerpc VMs along with the hurdy VMs (after switching my ISP + securing the storage for /home). The said Talos 2 board has two 02Y227 CPU, 22 cores each, so 176 threads in total. All RAM slots are filled, 1TB RAM total. ("Back in our days", a DDR4 stick was so much cheaper)
Cheers, -- Luke Yasuda About me: https://jing.rocks/about/ GPG Fingerprint: 4E09 8D19 00AA 3F72 1899 2614 09B3 316E 13A1 1EFC
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