Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:12:50 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: We need your old laptop for a committer... Message-ID: <64336.971086370@critter>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi guys, We have a committer, a productive and promising kernel talent, who is being hampered in his FreeBSD work by lack of hardware. It would help him a lot if we could find him a laptop with enough disk to hold a CVS tree and a few extra bits and pieces so he can transport data to and from work that way and use it as cvs-server for his computer at home. Our friend lives in what used to be the Eastblock, so just buying a laptop is not an option for him. I was hoping that we have somebody out there who has a preowned laptop he would be willing to donate and if possible cross the "sender pays customs & dues" box on the address label, to save our friend the $100-$300 customs import charge. Ideally we are looking for a laptop with 3+ GB disk and an ethernet card. CPU, RAM, Display or even battery performance is not critical. (But of course I'm sure that a really good modern laptop would be put to good use, so you don't have to actually downgrade it to make him happy :-) I know this request is a bit untraditional for the FreeBSD project, but I hate to see one of our more promising talents have to worry about if he can avoid the Attic directories with cvsup rather than work on the good stuff he has been doing for FreeBSD so far. Understandably, he does not feel comfortable about asking for such a favour in public, so I ask on his behalf: If you have a suitable laptop you can part with for a good cause, and you have access to a corporate DHL/FedEx/UPS account, please help this guy out. Drop me an email, and I'll put you in touch with each other. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?64336.971086370>