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

[Freya Fractal]

right? that's a bit harsh. We're doing this right properly too, and we'd 
much prefer hardware that's not, uh, 22.... 23? fuck we're old. years 
old, and uh..... if this machine shits the bed, it takes FractalKit with 
it. So we're looking for something that's not..... this old. Something 
that doesn't take like 7 seconds to sign an ELF binary with elfsign(1)

On 5/30/2025 21:19, Dave McGuire via rescue wrote:
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>   Wow, WTF??
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>            -Dave
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> On 5/31/25 00:17, Henry Bent via rescue wrote:
>> Hey. You're out of your mind. Please contact local assistance.
>>
>> -Henry
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>> On Sat, May 31, 2025, 00:12 Freya Fractal via rescue 
>> <rescue at sunhelp.org <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>> wrote:
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>>     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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