An SGI octane is quite cheap on ebay... i suspect there are plenty
around that can be had for a case of beer or a decent bottle of wine.
The expense would be the power costs...
You raise a good point though.
OpenBSD proudly shares their lab picture ->
http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg
linked from the / page of their website.
Also check out -> http://www.homedatacenterproject.com/ A project for
which I truly cannot comprehend.
Dean
On 2014-09-04 22:21, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:35:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting
tested
are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular
I'm
thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix.
Irix is an especially interesting platform, both for CPAN authors and
p5p, because it doesn't so much have a compiler as a complier. Back
when
I was testing on it I found quite a few dodgy assumptions being made
about data types. And one of these days I'll get round to buying
another
Irix machine. One day.
Do CPAN Testers as an organisation have funds that can be allocated to
buy
(and host) such interesting machines? Would it make sense to set up
one?
Is gittip^Wgratipay the right place to send some money to CPAN Testers?
