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Re: Sun loans Ultra30 Systems to Debian
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- Subject: Re: Sun loans Ultra30 Systems to Debian
- From: David Scott +44 1383 821921 <david.michael.scott@gecm.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 11:49:59 +0000 (GMT)
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> Debian GNU/Linux
> http://www.debian.org/
> Sun loans Ultra30 Systems to Debian
> November 6, 1998
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> >> News
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> Sun Microsystems <http://sun.com> has loaned three UltraSPARC systems to
> Debian project. They are 64-bit Ultra30 workstations, each with with an
> UltraSPARC-II/250MHz CPU (1M-ECache), 128MB RAM, 4.3GB Seagate SCSI drive
> and a Creator graphics card. One system is installed at Kachina
> Technologies, Inc. and will be publicly available to Debian developers.
> The other two systems are used by developers to develop boot related
> packages and other low level tools.
Would there be any point approaching Sun Microsystems to see if they would give
similar support to OpenBSD (or any *BSD project)? Sun were interested in a
FreeBSD port at one time.
David Scott