Hello Peter, I may have a V240 with some RAM and storage that I can make cycles available for to build on over the Internet. It is used today to host SunRay clients and has capacity.
I have a UPS system which will keep the network and server alive for over 3 hours, in case of an infrastructure power outage. I also have some other equipment also available, which I am willing to provide access over the Internet to. If you have some Solaris client to make DynDNS available, I would be willing to install it. I also have some older equipment I am willing to host (quantities of v100, v120, ultra60) which can be used as a test bed for new builds. I am personally willing to eat the cost of hosting, power, cooling, connectivity for the purpose of keeping newer SPARC ports coming. I would also be interested in hosting multiple Raspberry PI servers for such a port. ZFS or UFS is ok. I may also be able to get/host more modern hardware (various T systems), if there is an effort to keep SPARC ports & packages coming. Thanks, David http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 19, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought it worth giving a quick update on progress in Tribblix. > > A new release, Milestone 19 aka 0m19, is now available for download. > > http://www.tribblix.org/download.html > > The major milestone this time around is the new loader, which seems to > work just fine (as it should, but it's nice to confirm this in practice). > > There's a long list of new and updated packages - just keeping up > with the ongoing deluge of releases in all the open source projects > out there is a job in itself. > > A background project is to gradually enable 64-bit builds of packages > where relevant. This means shipping both 32 and 64-bit binaries and > libraries, not necessarily enabling isaexec. The main intent is to have > 64-bit versions of everything building successfully so that when they're > needed they're already available. > > Meanwhile, Tribblix should work just fine on older hardware - either > old 32-bit x86 systems, or generally somewhat more resource > constrained than the multi-gigabyte RAM requirements you might > see elsewhere. > > I'm working on getting the SPARC version up to date too. I'm hoping > to get a Milestone 18 release out shortly. Progress on SPARC is > slower than I would like for several reasons: the systems are > just plain slow (my SunBlade 2000 that I use for building packages > takes forever compared to my regular Core i7 desktop, and the > T5140 takes about as long to run POST as my normal machine > does to do an illumos build); the hardware is noisy and power-hungry > so it doesn't spend that much time turned on (although it's been handy > on some of the colder winter days); I'm still working on getting the > baseline packages solid (libxml2 is about the last one left that I > still have to regenerate); and I still need to make Tribblix on SPARC > self-hosting (I currently build illumos for SPARC on a T5140 that's > a cobbled together by hand mix of OpenSXCE, Tribblix, illumos, and > hand-installed bodges) - the reason I can't jump straight to the same > level for SPARC as I'm using for x86 is that illumos no longer builds > on that old box (and it's not the loader, it's changes in some of the > native build stuff). It's basically that old limitation, time. > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
