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If there is interest, I can start trying to scrounge up enough parts 
to make a 'franken-mac' to put into the cluster.  I've built one in 
the past, so I'm comfortable doing so again, and should be able to do 
so for far cheaper than a traditional system.  I doubt I can beat a 
mac mini for price/perf however.

Do cluster machines have to be rack mount?  What kind of minimum specs 
are required?

Joshua Coombs

> I don't have a dependable FreeBSD/PowerPC machine to debug stuff on.
> We still don't have a PowerPC reference machine in the FreeBSD.org
> cluster.
>
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)