I have gotten my hands on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server machine. I need to really triage it, but I think it could be a quad-core Xeon with between 2-16GB RAM. I need to dig into it more to find out the actual specs.
Regardless, I would like to donate this machine in some way to the Parrot effort. I think we could get it setup with a few sandbox virtual machines for various supported platforms and let people use it for remote testing (especially when we have outstanding platform-specific bug reports or for testing prior to a release). Keeping several legacy VM images around would let us provide a testing platform for older but still "supported" OS's. We could have several flavors of Linux, Solaris and BSD variants available. Unfortunately I live in a little apartment and don't have room to host it myself. I don't have any friends/family locally who would both be willing to host the machine physically and make their IP addresses public. Plus it would be a huge pain to manage it in a residential setting with a dynamic DNS. So the question is this: Are there any parrot community members in the Philadelphia area, or sympathetic local companies who would be willing to host the machine? I say "philadelphia area" because costs to ship it would be prohibitive for me personally. Plus if it's local and there is a problem I could get physical access to it if necessary. If we can find a good home for this machine I may be able to acquire more machines as well with similar capabilities. Anybody interested should please let me know either on or off list. Thanks, --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
