Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-09 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 08:25:17AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote: > Obviously there can be a balance. If the hardware is Foundation owned For the developers that haven't been around a long time, I'd like to bring up what happened when zwelch forked Zynot from Gentoo. zwelch personally owned several sy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Johnson Steward wrote: > Well, I guess the owner of the machines may want them to be under personal > possession, be taken care of personally and, hopefully, extend the love he > has with them even though he had to part with them. Sentiment towards old > friends, yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-09 Thread Johnson Steward
Well, I guess the owner of the machines may want them to be under personal possession, be taken care of personally and, hopefully, extend the love he has with them even though he had to part with them. Sentiment towards old friends, you know :) Johnson Steward 2017/09/09 22:39 "William L. Thomson

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 11:45:23 +0800 (HKT) Brendan Horan wrote: > > Its all well and good to ask, I don't mind. > However systems like this need good , caring owners not a > "board/trust " group. I don't mean that in a disrespecting way. > They just need a little more attention and up keep. FYI, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-08 Thread Brendan Horan
- On 7 Sep, 2017, at 10:53 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wlt...@o-sinc.com wrote: > > In an ideal sense, equipment like this would go to something like OSU > OSL or some other hosting provider. Though there is the cost of > bandwidth, power, and man power to service hardware issues. Not to >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-07 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 07:44:00 -0700 Rich Freeman wrote: > > In general I would just comment that if anything we get too few > requests for spending money and not too many. Not surprising, though I had ideas on lots of spending, events, travel reimbursement, developer systems, etc. > I don't think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:32 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:26:10 -0400 > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > >> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:03:21 +0800 (HKT) >> Brendan Horan wrote: >> >> > Just an update for everyone : >> > R0b0t1, has the Power 6+ >> > Johnson, has the Sparc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-07 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:26:10 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:03:21 +0800 (HKT) > Brendan Horan wrote: > > > Just an update for everyone : > > R0b0t1, has the Power 6+ > > Johnson, has the Sparc T5120 > > > > Still working out shipping/logistics > > If someone h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-07 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:03:21 +0800 (HKT) Brendan Horan wrote: > Just an update for everyone : > R0b0t1, has the Power 6+ > Johnson, has the Sparc T5120 > > Still working out shipping/logistics If someone has access to say a company UPS or FedEx account. They may have discounted rates based on v

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-07 Thread Brendan Horan
Just an update for everyone : R0b0t1, has the Power 6+ Johnson, has the Sparc T5120 Still working out shipping/logistics No takers on the HPPA or the Ia64 The HPPA box is nice , really! :) Thanks brendan - On 7 Sep, 2017, at 1:39 AM, R0b0t1 r03...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-06 Thread R0b0t1
On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, Brendan Horan wrote: >> Hi R0b0t1, >> >> Sounds good to me. >> Shipping a 30kg+ system by it self will not be cheep. >> This is originally why I had the idea to ship all the systems together. >> > > I thought so. Sh

[gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-06 Thread R0b0t1
On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, Brendan Horan wrote: > Hi R0b0t1, > > Sounds good to me. > Shipping a 30kg+ system by it self will not be cheep. > This is originally why I had the idea to ship all the systems together. > I thought so. Shipping will still be cheaper than a used unit from someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-06 Thread Brendan Horan
Hi R0b0t1, Sounds good to me. Shipping a 30kg+ system by it self will not be cheep. This is originally why I had the idea to ship all the systems together. Specs are : http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/1/872/ENUS8203-_h01/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-06 Thread Brendan Horan
Hi Lucas, Its a tough moment that is for sure! Its a Zx2000, not Zx6000. Single Itanium2 Deerfield. Let me know if your still interested. Thanks Brendan (irc : undersys) - On 6 Sep, 2017, at 9:11 AM, Lucas Ramage ramage.luca...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm sorry that you must part with your mac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-06 Thread Brendan Horan
Hi Johnson, Thanks for the interest. I know there are some issues with shipping second hand computers into China. I could ask SF here in HK about if they feel it would make it thought customs. Your thoughts? Thanks Brendan (irc : undersys) - On 6 Sep, 2017, at 8:41 AM, Johnson Steward i..

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-05 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:18 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Brendan Horan wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have some hardware I would like to see go to a good home. >> I would prefer it to be someone working with Gentoo. >> That was my goal, but life changes :) >> >> >> I have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-05 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Brendan Horan wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have some hardware I would like to see go to a good home. > I would prefer it to be someone working with Gentoo. > That was my goal, but life changes :) > > > I have the following : > * HP j6750 (2x cpu PA-RSIC) > * HP Zx200

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-05 Thread Lucas Ramage
I'm sorry that you must part with your machines. But it's awesome to see that they will go to a new home! I would like to get my hands on an HP Zx6000 like this: On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Johnson Steward wrote: > Hi Brendan, > > I'm in Beijing and interested in these machines, especial

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-05 Thread Johnson Steward
Hi Brendan, I'm in Beijing and interested in these machines, especially the SPARC. Though not a Gentoo Dev, In recently struggling with Gentoo BSD and, hopefully, have some experience with Gentoo. It would be great if I can get one and test the packages on that system and, hopefully, contribute to

[gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

2017-09-05 Thread Brendan Horan
Hi everyone, I have some hardware I would like to see go to a good home. I would prefer it to be someone working with Gentoo. That was my goal, but life changes :) I have the following : * HP j6750 (2x cpu PA-RSIC) * HP Zx2000 Itanium2 (single cpu) (custom 4ru unit) * IBM Power 6+ p560 (dual cpu