Re: ldom question

On 10/04/2015 18:34, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
> Scarlett,
>
> if you are going to keep it at home, unless u have a VERY separate room for
> IT equipment, please consider that all Txxxx servers (you want ldoms, don't
> you?) are as quiet as a jet about to take off... and the only electrically
> cheap one is the T1000 averaging 100W. If you still want the T stuff, just
> have a look at this mailing list, some days ago some machines were offered
> for free.
>
> If you just want to fiddle with sparc64 without ldoms, consider a sun4u
> platform: best pizza box server is the Fire V120, while if you like jets
> (but quieter ones than T series) V240s are nowadays cheap on the market; if
> you instead want a workstation you can find anything from Blade 5/10 (the
> cheapest in every sense) to power-hogs like 1500 and 2500.
>

I'm aware of the hardware available, as well as the noise and 
electricity requirements. They make me sad. I used to keep jet engines 
in my house, but I decided long ago that it wasn't very healthy nor 
particularly economic.

It's possible access to a domain or even a shell account would meet my 
needs (for now), providing that the person who owns the box is happy 
with it being used for a lot of compiling and fuzz testing (under nice, 
if need dictates).

Making sure desktop software works on sparc seems like a fun follow-up 
project to my current work, but it's considerably more tedious to work 
with bloated X11 applications on a remote and headless box.