The NetBSD project would like to thank all contributors for their generous response to the recent call for donations. In only one month, almost US $27K were donated allowing the NetBSD Foundation to purchase five new machines; three of those machines will be added to the nightly build infrastructure and two of those machines will become anonymous cvs servers. For more information, including the detailed specifications of the hardware purchased, please see Christos Zoulas’ email to the netbsd-announce mailing list.
NetBSD Gets New Machines After Donations
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I bet it was all from people like you and me, while other companies and stockholders get rich from the NetBSD team’s efforts.
So ? Free Software also means free to thank.
If somebody don’t feel like donating, he shouldn’t be obliged to.
The important think here is that NetBSD will be there for more time, thanks to the donations made for people like you and me.
Who cares if some company gets rich on it as long as you and I can use it, for free, how we want. I certainly don’t care, the rest of the *BSD people don’t care, why do you? I can only surmise there is some sort of deep seated resentment against anyone getting rich…
Big business get rich off GPL:ed software too. Big deal.
I’ll wager the big players want influence to go with their big donations.
Any use of the code is good use, including commercial use.
I meant to say: The big [Linux] players.
Hope this hardware power will be used to build pkgsrc binaries more frequently than 3 months.
none of the machines will be used for pkgsrc builds.
From Christos email:
Anonymous CVS servers (two machines)
2 CPU [2 cpu Opteron 244 (1.8GHz)]
8 GB Memory (8 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
150 GB Disk (4 SATA 36.7GB 10K RPM drives)
Build Servers (three machines)
4 CPU [2 cpu (dual core) Opteron 265 (1.8GHz)]
4 GB Memory (4 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
210 GB Disk (3 SATA 74GB 10K RPM 8MB Raptor drives)
Eat your heart out *ntel
It’d be handy if a *nix supporting organisation or company would donate them $100,000 – even $100,000 is still pocket-money to most medium & large size companies
From Christos email:
Anonymous CVS servers (two machines)
2 CPU [2 cpu Opteron 244 (1.8GHz)]
8 GB Memory (8 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
150 GB Disk (4 SATA 36.7GB 10K RPM drives)
Build Servers (three machines)
4 CPU [2 cpu (dual core) Opteron 265 (1.8GHz)]
4 GB Memory (4 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
210 GB Disk (3 SATA 74GB 10K RPM 8MB Raptor drives)
Eat your heart out *ntel
Intel hell! I’m eating MY heard out! Man, to have one of those machines, any of the five, would be awesome!
Seagate Serial-ATA 7200RPM 8Mb cache with NCQ drives are more faster than 10000RPM Serial-ATA drives.
Seagate Serial-ATA 7200RPM 8Mb cache with NCQ drives are more faster than 10000RPM Serial-ATA drives.
They might be faster but they’re not enterprise class drives.
It is slightly faster (according to storagereview) than the 36GB raptor, but it is not faster than the 74GB raptor.
Could someone help me out here? Is that the specs per machine or is it the specs per group of machines?
That would be an awesome power if that is the specs per machine. Damn, I am drooling!
Yeah thats per machine. Those boxes are super sick.
I Love NetBSD!
.adam.
well thats great! now maybe since they dont have to maintan the servers so much they can work on some documentation and guides… ok, that wasnt nice….
you don’t think they have much documentation?
haven’t looked at their website lately, have you?
Are these new servers HP, Dell, Sun, or are they from another OEM?
Drupal.org went down and they received about $10,000 in a day or so.
Anyway as NetBSD is more mature, they probably don’t need the relative boost Drupal needed.
Look what is your definition of enterprise class. Basically the servers are way ahead of our times and they will make the project more successful.
I doubt enterprise class software is as successful!!
NetBSD is solid and fast, but why do they keep bundling Sushi with it? Amongst such a clean, fresh and elegant design, Sushi is a nightmare. Or they could update it and make it work properly!
(For those who don’t know: Sushi is a ncurses-based configuration tool that uses menus etc. Looks really nice, would be great to have a straightforward config tool for general NetBSD administration, but most functions in it are broken. It sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise excellent OS.)
I completely agree. It’s way busted. I don’t use it after it thrashed my rc.conf a few times. The idea is good for people new to NetBSD, but it doesn’t work as expected, so it kinda defeats the purpose.
.adam.