Hi everyone, In light of M.E.W's offer here I feel i should make my intentions known to the mailing list as well about a build server so as to avoid any issues or confusion down the line.
I've been chatting a little bit on and off with Emulatorman in #parabola on IRC about donating a build server virtual machine on a server I'm building. I've been running build servers for some other GNU/Linux distributions for a while now, specifically KaOS GNU/Linux (https://kaosx.us/about/sponsors/) and Chakra GNU/Linux. Its been my intention to setup a VM for Parabola to use as well but my current server has not had enough RAM to host more VM's so I've been working on something new. This is the parts of the specification of the new server I've been working on and a status on where I'm at with getting this deployed for everyone. There is more storage and such but that's not relevant to Parabola so I'm leaving that off. Motherboard: ASUS KGPE-D16 Libreboot with oprom loading disabled) Processor: 2x AMD Opteron 6284 SE (32 cores) RAM: 256GB DDR3 ECC 1600MHz CL11 VM Storage: 3x Intel 540s 1TB in encrypted RAID Storage Interface: ASUS PIKE 2008 SAS/SATA card (Oproms erased) Virtualization: KVM using libvirt Host OS: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre (What can I say, i like updated stuff even on my servers and you guys provide it :) The current status is that I have the server up and running with Parabola on a btrfs RAID1 on 2x Intel 730 240GB SSDs. I'm still waiting for 2 of the VM storage drives (540s 1TB) but will get them as soon as they're back in stock at the retailer I'm using (no current date though, hoping soon). Currently the system is running with 32GB of RAM (2x16GB sticks) but the full set of RAM is shipping to me right now and should arrive before December. Sourcing and putting together all this hardware has been an adventure in and of itself so my plans of having this ready summer of 2016 was completely missed. Provided I don't run into any more issues with the remaining hardware I'm waiting for the Parabola VM could be up and running in a day or two as soon as I get that hardware. The VM would have access to 30 or so cores (leaving some for my own small projects and the host) which it shares with the other build server VM's running on the host. I will probably start it off with at least 32GB of RAM since I wont be short on RAM for quite a while. Administration and maintenance of the build server will be left entirely to Parabola, I don't intend to interfere with how you configure and update it inside the VM. Choice of operating system is up to the Parabola project but I suspect you'll be wanting Parabola GNU/Linux-libre? :) Obviously since I do this as a hobby I cant give guaranteed up-time numbers or anything like that but I do take the precautions I can such as running it on a pretty powerful UPS and surge protector for example. Reboots will happen as I need to update things but usually I try to clear this with involved projects/people on IRC at least. Critical security updates will force reboots as is required though. I hope that I, together with M.E.W, can both help Parabola GNU/Linux-libre become an even better distribution in the future! If anyone has any questions you can find me as Dezponia in #parabola on freenode's IRC server and at [email protected]. -- // Dezponia Veil Den 2016-11-20 kl. 15:30, skrev M.E.W.: > Hi, > > i wanted to make a donation and saw that you need some build server for > security and security sounds good, so i like to help. So for what do you > need build server and what specs does a proper build server have? Is > something like PCEngines APU with coreboot or the BeagleBoard-X15 enough > for example. Just tell me more. > > Bye for now! > > P.S. and why are so many people here with google mail accounts. I know > that is a complete other topic. But Google Inc. sucks...i mean literally > all of your data(and sadly my mail adress, too). I do not need any > answers for this i am just loud thinking its a free world and YOUR > decision of course but in a libre community it feels just very bad placed. > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
