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

[Dave McGuire]

   Wow, WTF??

            -Dave

On 5/31/25 00:17, Henry Bent via rescue wrote:
> Hey. You're out of your mind. Please contact local assistance.
> 
> -Henry
> 
> On Sat, May 31, 2025, 00:12 Freya Fractal via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org 
> <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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