Re: U.S. Midwest based build farm

2022-06-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-06-11, Maxime Devos wrote: > jbra...@dismail.de schreef op za 11-06-2022 om 16:06 [+]: >> What's good and/or bad about this idea? > > A positive point: extra resources, could be useful for reproducibility > testing, ...? > > A negative point: extra points through with malware can be

Re: U.S. Midwest based build farm

2022-06-11 Thread jbranso
June 11, 2022 4:00 PM, "Maxime Devos" wrote: > jbra...@dismail.de schreef op za 11-06-2022 om 16:06 [+]: > >> What's good and/or bad about this idea? > > A positive point: extra resources, could be useful for reproducibility > testing, ...? That's actually a good idea. I could give

Re: U.S. Midwest based build farm

2022-06-11 Thread Maxime Devos
jbra...@dismail.de schreef op za 11-06-2022 om 16:06 [+]: > What's good and/or bad about this idea? A positive point: extra resources, could be useful for reproducibility testing, ...? A negative point: extra points through with malware can be introduced (->compromises). Can be solved by

U.S. Midwest based build farm

2022-06-11 Thread jbranso
Hey guix, I live near a big university that sells old Dell 7020 optiplex machines. So each desktop machine costs about $200 - $250, depending on how the current market rate is for hard drive and RAM. My current landlord has an unused basement. It should be somewhat easy to get an ethernet cord