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Donation Request: New xserve G4 for ports builds

Contributed by pitrh on from the a-more-lickable-rack dept.

Antoine Jacoutot(ajacoutot@) wrote to the misc@ mailing list outlining the project's need for another xserve G4 for macppc builds:

We are looking for a second xserve G4 for the OpenBSD ports building infrastructure. Currently, only one machine is doing all the work and a bulk can last up to 1 month which makes it very hard to stay in sync with snapshots. We are also low on RAM on this machine (only 512M) which makes the build even longer and prevent building some ports.
If anyone could donate and ship such a machine and/or compliant RAM (1G would be nice), please contact me. The machine will be hosted in Alberta, Canada.
Thank you

If any of our readers can help, please contact Antoine with any offers of appropriate hardware you may have lying around.

Editor's note: Specific developers and various parts of the project tend to make their hardware needs known via the Hardware Wanted page. And if you know of hardware that might be useful (also items that are not specifically listed on that page), please follow the instructions on that page for contacting the donations coordinator.

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  1. By Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot) ajacoutot@openbsd.org on http://www.bsdfrog.org/

    The memory has been taken care of; thanks for that :-)

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    1. By Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot) on http://www.bsdfrog.org/

      > The memory has been taken care of; thanks for that :-)

      And so did the xserve. Thanks to all that helped!

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      1. By Will Backman (bitgeist) on http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com

        > > The memory has been taken care of; thanks for that :-)
        >
        > And so did the xserve. Thanks to all that helped!

        Now you'll need donations to cover all the electricity those things use.

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        1. By Peter J. Philipp (pjp) on http://centroid.eu

          > > > The memory has been taken care of; thanks for that :-)
          > >
          > > And so did the xserve. Thanks to all that helped!
          >
          > Now you'll need donations to cover all the electricity those things use.
          >
          >

          Greetings from Germany!

          I just made a donation the other week, and I'm sure there is other people randomly donating. It seems Alberta is the best place for this box as I read on a government of alberta site that electricity costs around 9 cents (CAD) per kilowatt hour. That is fantastic rates! I'm glad this box will be building ports saving energy on my G4 Cube when I install from packages, electricity costs a lot more here.

          Did anyone else see Theo's interview where he says he pays X amount of dollars a month and is surprised noone checked his house for growing lamps yet? hehe.

          ttyl!

          -peter

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