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Jeff Horwitz jeff at smashing.org
Thu Jan 14 16:12:45 UTC 2010


The Dell 2*50 series are VERY loud.  Unless this one is unusually quiet, I 
wouldn't recommend it for home hosting.  ;-)

I'm happy to help with the configuration, and I'll see if I can pull some 
local strings to get it hosted.  Ping me off-list and we'll talk about it.

-jeff

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Andrew Whitworth wrote:

> 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
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