[rescue] Looking for SUN4U/SUN4V machines for a porting project

[Freya Fractal]

Hiya,


Like the subject line says. We're looking to see if anyone in 
NZ/Australia has a SPARC (sun4u/sun4v) machine they'd be willing to 
donate to the FractalKit project. FractalKit is a collection of modern 
packages for Solaris 10/11 on SPARC, covering web servers (Nginx 1.28, 
Apache 2.4.62), security (OpenSSL 3.4.0, GnuTLS 3.7), shell utilities 
(coreutils 9.5, bash 5.3, zsh 5.9), tcsh), programming languages (PHP 
8.4.1, Ruby 3.2.3, Perl 5.40.0, python 3.13), libraries and development 
tools (too many to list), compilers (GCC 9.5.0 C, C++, fortran, 
objective C), databases (SQLite 3.44.3, PostgreSQL 15.8, MariaDB if we 
can get it to build), editors (nano 8.4, vim 9.1), and replacements for 
network-facing services (primarily OpenSSH) that need to be kept 
up-to-date, especially for those lacking MOS/Sunsolve access. we're 
currently rebuilding the entire project from scratch after realising we 
made some fatal errors, but we can send, on request, the full previous 
build of FractalKit as a demonstration. However, we've run into a 
problem: The only SPARC machine we have is a Sun Blade 150, with a 
650MHz UltraSPARC-IIe, 768MiB of ram, and an IDE hard disk. Does it 
compile things? Yes. Does it also take in excess of 24 hours to build 
something like gcc? also yes. So we're looking for a bit of SPARC kit, 
preferably SUN4V, that one of yall lovely entities would be willing to 
send to us to help advance the project.


Thank you in advance,


Freya