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Sun and Frontline Support KDE with Donation of Server

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Posted by Jes Hall on Wednesday 30/Jan/2008, @17:50
from the shining-brightly dept.
During a tutorial today on-stage at linux.conf.au, Sun Microsystems and Frontline donated a server to the KDE project, available for shipment within hours. Aaron Seigo, Plasma developer and KDE e.V President, accepted a certificate from Ross Cunningham of Sun Microsystems and David Purdue of Frontline on behalf of the KDE project.

Ross Cunningham (left) and David Purdue (right) present the certificate for the server to Aaron Seigo and Karol Szwed

The server is a SunFire X4200, with two AMD Opteron processors, 4GB of memory and a pair of 73GB SAS disks. This generous gift is part of Sun's demonstrated commitment to supporting Open Source, and thus the KDE project.

Adriaan de Groot, in an email statement made on behalf of KDE's sysadmins, thanked Sun and Frontline for their gift. "Large Free Software projects like KDE can be run on surprisingly little infrastructure, but at the same time there is always more, extra OS platform support, developer support, build farming, quality checking, that we can do with a little more machinery and horsepower. We're happy that Sun can help us do more."

While the intended purpose of the server has not yet been finalised, there has been mention of possibly using it to increase reliability and robustness of the anonsvn service.

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Wrong Frontline!
by Amused on Wednesday 30/Jan/2008, @20:17

Hi guys, Wrong Frontline! www.frontline.com.au

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Re: Wrong Frontline!
by Jes Hall on Wednesday 30/Jan/2008, @20:50

Yes, I'm afraid that's entirely my fault - I didn't supply our dot editors with the URLs myself and I guess it's understandable someone from the northern hemisphere might find the wrong Frontline.

Unfortunately as most of the dot editors are in the northern hemisphere we might be waiting a few hours for someone to be awake to fix it.

My apologies to Frontline for this mistake, and my assurances that it will be amended as soon as I can get a hold of an editor.

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Re: Wrong Frontline!
by bangert on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @05:20

it's also "e.V."

its not obvious to me, how one is supposed to get in touch with the editors. i probably just need to wake up, but maybe this could be highlighted more...

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Re: Wrong Frontline!
by jos poortvliet on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @08:58

I believe it is editors@dot.kde.org or admin@kdenews.org (the last adres can be seen on the bottom of the page)

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Re: Wrong Frontline!
by winter on Wednesday 30/Jan/2008, @20:52

I guess you'd like it if any of us never ever use your services. I don't think I've ever seen an IT company spam like this.

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Re: Wrong Frontline!
by jos poortvliet on Wednesday 30/Jan/2008, @23:05

huh? What's wrong with correcting an URL?

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Thanks
by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 30/Jan/2008, @21:39

Great news, especially the bottom-node about anonsvn :) Thanks Sun and Frontline!

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Re: Thanks
by richlv on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @00:23

indeed, anonsvn is failing now and then for me. it seems that anonsvn syncs later than authenticated servers (which wouldn't be that bad), but it also seems there are at least two servers who themselves often are out of sync :)
so i get "updated to revision n" message, try to get svn log to that revision - and then it claims there is no such revision =)

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Re: Thanks
by Adriaan de Groot on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @00:47

There's three right now:

Name: anonsvn.kde.org
Address: 78.46.32.117
Name: anonsvn.kde.org
Address: 131.174.31.25
Name: anonsvn.kde.org
Address: 138.246.255.177

The middle one is the EBN, which doubles as anonsvn. I know it updates every five minutes from the master; I don't know about the others.

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OT: 4.0.1 Tagging?
by blueget on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @01:37

Wasn't 4.0.1 to be tagged yesterday?

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Re: OT: 4.0.1 Tagging?
by Anon on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @01:54

Yes and no - but mostly yes ;)

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-release-team&m=120174348031330&w=2

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Just a marketing?
by Observer on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @03:36

Hmm, isn't that server pretty weak for projects like KDE?
It looks to me Sun would just like to hit the headlines, like supporting KDE and stuff. I mean, if they can afford to buy companies for 1 BILLION dollars, they could've been more generous if their intents are honest. Or maybe they just want to get rid of old hardware?
Anyway, it's always nice to receive a donation, but this is small news and shouldn't be on top of announcements, IMHO.

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Re: Just a marketing?
by Adriaan de Groot on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @04:07

No, it's not weak. It would be one of the strongest machines in our infrastructure. When I said that KDE as a project runs on surprisingly little hardware, I meant it: we have machines that you wouldn't use as a modern doorstop supporting critical parts of the project. At the same time, we don't need monstrous kit to get things done, so this donation is, just like I said: a nice way of extending our reach.

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Re: Just a marketing?
by anon on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @06:45

eh just a silly question, can we have more information where the server will be placed physically, i mean do u have an office for kde ev !!
just wondering

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Re: Just a marketing?
by Adriaan de Groot on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @08:23

This machine will stay in Australia; as stated in the article it will be hosted through Frontline. Probably in one of the big cities. The question whether KDE e.V. has an office is totally separate, but yes, we do: see http://ev.kde.org/contact.php

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This is good news.
by Zachary on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @04:55

It's good to see that Sun is supporting the open source community, I'm sure the hardware that they've donated will help the KDE project out greatly.

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Re: This is good news.
by Charley on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @05:05

I agree, this is a great move. Thank you Sun!

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Many Thanks Sun !
by evocallaghan on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @05:54

Now,

As a Solaris Express user, could KDE help the port of KDE 4.0 over to Solaris ?
I would love to see KDE 4.0 running on my Solaris box with the all new Kwin !

Many Thanks to everyone's work,
Edward.

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Re: Many Thanks Sun !
by Anon on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @06:00

http://people.fruitsalad.org/adridg/bobulate/index.php?/categories/10-Solaris

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Re: Many Thanks Sun !
by kszwed on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @06:00

Yes, we are doing just this. In fact, we even have a KDE OpenSolaris project established, so stay tuned!

We'll be updating the solaris.kde.org site soon with more details...

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opensolaris and kde
by mimoune djouallah on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @06:53

i read some where that opensolaris will ship kde 4, at leas the applications part (no workspace) is the information still relevant.

friendly

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Donations are always wellcome
by Tuxero on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @07:09

We all appreciate donations!
Cheers mate!

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Who's next?
by Fred on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @08:07

Nokia supporting KDE
SUN supporting KDE

Who's next? Microsoft?

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Re: Who's next?
by Anon on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @08:17

Since Microsoft have little history of supporting Free Software compared to the two companies listed, I would guess "no".

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Re: Who's next?
by jos poortvliet on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @09:23

I'd say Apple, through their work on KHTML/WebKit ;-)

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Re: Who's next?
by Max on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @11:38

How about google?

They could take a more active part and become a patron of KDE.
That would be great!!

I also wouldn't mind if google writes some applications for plasma. Specifically applications that could sync google calendar, google mail, google news, etc. with KDE applications. (I know KDE programmers could do it, but since google stands to benefit the most from it, maybe they should do it themselves. :-) It would free up time for already busy developers to concentrate on the rest of the KDE experience.)

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Re: Who's next?
by Eduardo on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @06:44

Yeah right. First they should try to make Gmail work in Konqueror as a fully-supported browser.

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Re: Who's next?
by Max on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @11:32

Well yea.. But the other things are important too.

Maybe Google will have an incentive now that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will mean more interoperability for Microsoft-Yahoo. I'm sure google will want to cement their stake on the desktop too.

I for one will welcome google with open arms. :)

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great!
by meh on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @09:00

Big up Sun and Frontline! ty's from the community!

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yay
by Pedro on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @14:57

way to go Sun Microsystems and Frontline! it's nice to see some appreciation for the KDE teams hard work!

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a pair of 73 ???
by CMS on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @02:43

at least was it new?

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Re: a pair of 73 ???
by Adriaan de Groot on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @06:39

73GB is a standard 2.5" SAS size, yes. Let's not forget that KDE doesn't really have monstrous data requirements; no multi-terabyte storage pools are needed (and when they are, we can ask for an X4500 :) ).

Well, except if we're doing an SVN mirror, because the repo is a little over 60GB right now, but Karol is going to get more disk.

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Re: a pair of 73 ???
by Thiago Macieira on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @10:24

It was 34 GB in December. I think you're a bit off in your estimates :-)

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