[nycbug-talk] NYCLAB?

[Pete Wright]

Mikel King wrote:

>
> All I am trying to do is get us a lab to work in for right now, and to 
> possibly get the base systems completed as quickly as possible so that 
> we can then take application for lab time...sounds too much like 
> college but I am certain that we would all agee this this will require 
> some sort of structure if we are to pull it off. I made the initial 
> request to my client for the loaner boxes. And I am working on some 
> space here at OCS for hosting them. Since most of the initial testing 
> wont require any real b/w it will not be a serious problem. once the 
> machines are aquired and setup then  we will define the experiments, 
> and grant remote access.


yea i totally agree!

>
> No sense having to crowd around the machines to get the job done 
> right. Of course if you are buying, the pizza and beer then I'm 
> game...;-)
>
> I think that now would be the time to decide which OSes/rev we are 
> going to use a test platforms. I will supply and setup Win2k3 and 
> fBSD5.x, but will definately need help with nBSD and oBSD, as well as 
> any MAC stuff should we get lucky enough to find a matched class of 
> machine.
>
i'm game working on oBSD.  regarding mac, i was just thinking about 
that.  george do you think apple would be kind enough to lend us a osx 
server for some tests.  i.e. if we could say "apple, we would like to 
benchmark osx against linux and the rest of the bsd's next week" do you 
think they would lend us a machine for this purpose?  who knows, it 
might be good publicity for them ;^)


> Of course this could all be premature if the client isn't willing to 
> part with these machines even for a limitted basis. Think positivly, 
> because how often do you stumble across a batch of identical hardware.
>
positive ;)  altho, if it falls through i'm sure we can gather some 
money (donations, raffle's etc.) to purchase white boxes or something...

-p

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