Hardware update
Adriaan de Groot <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.solaris |
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| Organization | KDE e.V. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The KDE-Solaris project continues to move forward; our contacts with Sun Netherlands and their Open Source team in particular are making it possible to do more focused work on KDE-Solaris. Yesterday I visited Sun NL to pick up some hardware. We (as the KDE-Solaris team) now have a U45 (SPARC) which is sitting under my desk at home. Once the system is set up properly and we have the kinks ironed out (like needing next month's compiler) I will try to make it accessible to those KDE-Solaris people that particularly want to use a SPARC box. It will be churning out packages once we come to that point; before then we will have tarballs to deal with. So this is a big step forward: we have enough support from Sun to get hardware. *Also* at Sun NL is an X4600. Yes, for the KDE-Solaris team. It will stay in their Open Source lab and churn out whatever we ask it to. That means again, builds, packages, etc. Whatever we can throw at it, also in terms of testing, unit tests, Krazy checks, etc. What that machine doesn't really have is bandwidth to serve as a remote desktop. That means that runtime testing will have to happen on everyone's local server, but I don't think that's such a big problem. In a sense we're now "set". We've got hardware available which is maintained by Sun NL, we've got the computational resources to go quite crazy with KDE builds. The SPARC machine will be kept warm this evening working on KDE dependencies (we have a new list coming up). The X4600 needs to be (re)installed, and I've given the local sysadmin two DVDs full of source code (including my KDE SVN checkout) to unpack on it. Once it's on there we can start churning away on the dependency packages and on building KDE from SVN again. I'll drop a note to the list when it's ready, so people can send in SSH pubkeys to get accounts. [ade] -- Adriaan de Groot KDE Quality Team http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/ SQO-OSS Researcher http://www.sqo-oss.eu/ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-solaris mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-solaris. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.