I bought a Xserve G5 for $100 off of Craigslist. It was still in the box and never turned on. Even came with OS X Tiger Unlimited Server. I was going to dual-boot gentoo/Fedora/OSX Leopard. I bought 6 Xserve G4's too, five parts machines and one machine i'm going to run Gentoo on.
Deals are around, I'd look for a Xserve if you can find one (theyre wide, but not tall and fit under a desk or endtable.
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:04:49PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 23:03 +0200, Karsten Hopp wrote:
Upstream rejected this backend because they don't have the hardware required to maintain it.
What are their requirements ? Do they just need access to a ppc64 machine ? I think we might be able to help out with that, I'll talk with Brent if you can confirm that ssh access to a machine is sufficient.
ISTR IBM even offered them a machine at the time, but they didn't want it.
Yeah, I offered to buy them a machine too, but they just don't want to maintain a ppc64 backend (or apparently not a non-Rhapsody one). In any case I'm fine maintaining this.
On the subject, what is a good cheap ppc64 machine to buy these days? A second hand G5?
Rich.
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