IOhannes is also the "central point of failure" for a lot of Pd. There is only so much on person can do, so I figure its good to spread the work around :-)
As for running this box, as long as its online, I can easily maintain it. Someone local just needs to be able to keep it booted up and connected to the internet.
.hc
On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Greg Pond wrote:
I will check the specs on my machines and get back to you soon. We have several surplus g4 and g5 towers here. IOhannes has a lot more knowledge and experience than I do so if he wants to do it then I am happy to turn it over to him- whatever is the best to keep the builds going.
Greg
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:22 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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On 2012-02-27 02:56, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So the Mac OS X PowerPC machine from the build farm has died. The hard drive is intact, so all the data is there. I also have much more limited time for maintaining the PdLab machines. So I'm looking for someone to host the Mac OS X PowerPC builds. It can be really any recent PowerPC Mac. The old machine was a 300MHz G4.
Can anyone take this on? I'd hate to see Mac OS X/PowerPC dropped from the supported platforms since they are still quite capable machines.
i think the iem could dedicate a G4 (733MHz, 750MB) machine. it's currently running 10.4;
i will have to wipe the disk first of course, but afaik it's not going to be used any more.
i was hoping for a G5, but unfortunately the only one left is very unstable and won't boot every other day (and if it boots it will power down for no apparent reasons after some minutes/hours)
Greg Pond has also offered a machine. Either works for me. A 10.4 machine would be nice so we can support 10.4 too. Basically, it just needs 10.4 and Xcode with all the updates, then Fink and JackOSX. That's it. If I have ssh root access, I can do the setup remotely.
.hc
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