Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:20:23 -0600 From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Obscure platform testbed Message-ID: <FD28F24C-C19D-403B-8C7A-E0FEBC2D98AA@dragondata.com>
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so if you know of = anyone who may be interested in this please forward to them. Right now = my company (your.org) does the free amd64/i386 VMs for FreeBSD = developers. For an unrelated project, we're trying to build a testbed of many of the = more obscure *nix boxes, both running their native OS and a modern OS. = As an example, we've now got two SGI O2 R10K boxes, one running IRIX and = one running NetBSD. We're planning on doing the same for Sparc64(Solaris = and FreeBSD), VAX, ARM, etc. Where possible we'll have NFS mounted home = directories and NIS to have shared logins across the "cluster". First, would any of you find this useful? If this is really only useful = for us, I won't bother trying to make this scale beyond our own need for = this. If this is popular enough to warrant the extra time, it wouldn't = be much more work to make this available to any developer who could use = it.=20 Second, do any of you have older non-intel boxes that are just gathering = dust, that are complete enough to install an OS and plug into ethernet? = If it's otherwise heading to a dumpster one day, we'd happily pay for = shipping to put it to good/public use. -- Kevin
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