On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:09:42PM +0100, Pedro Melo wrote:

> I was at the YAPC::EU CPAN testers bofh in Lisbon, and discussed the  
> possibility of adding more uncommon hardware to the CPANT pool.
> 
>  * a big 8U AIX RS6000 server: this is a enterprise class box, but  
> was given "as is";
>  * 3 sparcstations.
> 
> I have still pending a RS200, two other enterprise Suns, and possibly  
> 2 alphas (one running True64 and the other OpenVMS).

A VMS tester would be particularly useful - although I suspect that the
first step will be to give people accounts on it so that they can port
the various test reporting modules :-)  I'd also appreciate one so I can
port Devel::CheckLib.

> Next steps: I'll clean the x86 and one of the sparcs to get the ball  
> running. Which OS should I use with the spacstation? I think they have  
> to run old versions of Solaris (7 through 9, i think, still waiting  
> confirmation from a friend at Sun).

IIRC we have people running Solaris 9 and 10, so 7 and 8 would be good.

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