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[Pieter Lenaerts <pieter.lenaerts AT telenet.be>]

I'll have a peek in the attic this weekend...
doubts about a nic though...

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0700
Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT tautology.org> wrote:

      > Hi Source Magers,
      > 
      > The QA team will need some old simple stripped-down hardware for 
testing 
      > iso installs and rebuilds and things like that.  If anybody's got 
      > anything lying around the house and could see giving it up for a good 
      > cause, I'd be happy to accept various hardware gifts.  I have amd64 
(k8), 
      > x86, and arm, but no sparcs and no ppcs.  If anybody has an ibook 
with a 
      > broken monitor screen, for example, and could see giving it up or an 
old 
      > decommissioned sparc box or two, it would make our iso release 
procedure 
      > much more synchronized and regular.
      > 
      > I can pay for shipping myself if that's the only issue on some of the 
      > stuff I really need.  Please reply so I can make sure I don't get 
      > deluged with a whole bunch of hardware I can't do anything with (not 
      > that that's going to happen).  I really only need one thing of each 
type 
      > to test install isos and run prometheus on them to make sure our 
updates 
      > are working across architectures.
      > 
      > Here's a list of things I could use:
      > 
      > ppc mac -- anything really as long as it's newworld
      > sparc64 or sparch32
      > itanium (would be interesting to see if we could port to this)
      > old simple SCSI card and SCSI drive for testing scsi installs
      > anything else somebody would like better support for in every release,
      >   the odder the hardware the better.
      > 
      > I also could use a variety of boxes of various chips, everything from 
      > 486 to pentium4 and earlier.  But I don't really need them at my 
      > premises since prometheus can be made to run on your own location.  
If 
      > people want to sign up to help be a prometheus helper, let me know as 
      > well and I'll make sure you are made aware of everything you need to 
      > know.
      > 
      > If you need a donation to be tax deductible let me know as some of 
the 
      > team leaders are looking into setting up a US-based 501(c)3 
organization 
      > to allow people to donate tax-ductible contributions.  This process 
can 
      > take a while, but approval is retroactive from the filing date.  If 
      > anybody knows about the tax systems of other countries, feel free to 
      > help us out there too.  We'd need a volunteer treasurer if anybody 
has 
      > experience with treasury.  I do and so do a number of team leaders as 
      > many of us run our own businesses, but it would be best if we had a 
      > treasurer who had their sole responsibility be treasury.
      > 
      > The QA team can also use volunteers.  If you don't code but would 
like 
      > to help, the QA team is the team for you, since it involves just 
doing 
      > what I say ;).  QA team also looks good on a resume.
      > 
      > Seth
      > 
      > -- 
      > Seth Alan Woolley [seth at positivism.org], SPAM/UCE is unauthorized
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      > Not long for this world, Security Team Leader, Source Mage GNU/Linux
      > Quite maybe in the future, the Quality Assurance Team Leader instead


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