Thomas Krenn Support

[Matthias Kupfer]

HI folks,

the German company Thomas Krenn AG (Server Hardware) announced on LinuxTag an 
open source support programme for open source projectes, that register during 
LinuxTag. So I've use this chance and made the first step and registered 
ReactOS. Now we need some arguments what kind of hardware do we need and why 
resp. for what purpose. Devs please take a look at thomas-krenn.com and 
select a usefull set of hardware and describe what is usefull for. I think we 
should define specific tasks, not "upgrade exisiting hardware", but e.g.
"New 
continuous integration server". Please send the description and the ID of the 
basket to me. The prices are:
1st: hardware for 2500 € (excluding VAT)
2nd: hardware for 1500 € (excluding VAT)
3rd: hardware for 1000 € (excluding VAT)
4th: hardware for 800 € (excluding VAT)
5th: hardware for 700 € (excluding VAT)

They told me at the booth the chances increase with the detailed description 
of the intended use of the selected hardware (maybe combined with neediness).

Best regards

Matthias

-- 
Matthias Kupfer          phone [phone]
Wilhelm-Firl-Straße 21   mobile [phone]
09122 Chemnitz, Germany

[Colin Finck]

Hi Matthias,

Thanks for registering us right away. For your information, we have 
already participated last year, but obviously didn't win anything.

We actually have enough servers/VMs for non-resource-intensive tasks 
(Buildmasters, DNS, File and Web servers, etc.), but could always need 
dedicated build machines. Actually, it's just due to the generosity of 
Olaf that we even have all these new Buildslaves, which run on his 
private build machine (including Patchbot). Still, as all of them are on 
the same machine, we cannot run them concurrently, so a new build server 
could solve this problem easily. If there are major benefits in building 
under Windows, the potential new server could even become our first 
server with a Windows host OS.

As far as I know, Jaix still offers to host more ReactOS servers in the 
data center of his company. They would run in a private LAN using the 
same public IP as Fezile then, but this shouldn't be a problem for build 
servers.

Probably Mingw-w64 should also participate in this program (as an 
individual project this year), so I'm CC'ing this to Kai. I also believe 
they have build server needs and as they already got a VM on one of our 
servers, they might offer to share the build server if they win any and 
we don't :-)

Cheers,

Colin
who is back


Matthias Kupfer <mkupfer(a)reactos.org> wrote:
>   HI folks,
>
>  the German company Thomas Krenn AG (Server Hardware) announced on LinuxTag an
>  open source support programme for open source projectes, that register during
>  LinuxTag. So I've use this chance and made the first step and registered
>  ReactOS. Now we need some arguments what kind of hardware do we need and why
>  resp. for what purpose. Devs please take a look at thomas-krenn.com and
>  select a usefull set of hardware and describe what is usefull for. I think we
>  should define specific tasks, not "upgrade exisiting hardware", but e.g.
> "New
>  continuous integration server". Please send the description and the ID of the
>  basket to me. The prices are:
>  1st: hardware for 2500 € (excluding VAT)
>  2nd: hardware for 1500 € (excluding VAT)
>  3rd: hardware for 1000 € (excluding VAT)
>  4th: hardware for 800 € (excluding VAT)
>  5th: hardware for 700 € (excluding VAT)
>
>  They told me at the booth the chances increase with the detailed description
>  of the intended use of the selected hardware (maybe combined with neediness).
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Matthias

[Jan Blomqvist Kinander]

<Confirmation> Yes, I can host HW in our server room, I will be just as Colin said,
one LAN behind the Fezile server. The Fezile server has three LAN adapters, only one is
precently used, this is a waste :) . HW hosted here should preferably have some sort of
pre-BIOS control system to be able to controll it booting, shut-down and turn on from the
internet.</Confirmation>


"ReactOS Development List" &lt;ros-dev(a)reactos.org&gt; wrote on Sun, May 15th,
2011, 2:13 PM:
>   Hi Matthias,
>  
>  Thanks for registering us right away. For your information, we have 
>  already participated last year, but obviously didn't win anything.
>  
>  We actually have enough servers/VMs for non-resource-intensive tasks 
>  (Buildmasters, DNS, File and Web servers, etc.), but could always need 
>  dedicated build machines. Actually, it's just due to the generosity of 
>  Olaf that we even have all these new Buildslaves, which run on his 
>  private build machine (including Patchbot). Still, as all of them are on 
>  the same machine, we cannot run them concurrently, so a new build server 
>  could solve this problem easily. If there are major benefits in building 
>  under Windows, the potential new server could even become our first 
>  server with a Windows host OS.
>  
>  As far as I know, Jaix still offers to host more ReactOS servers in the 
>  data center of his company. They would run in a private LAN using the 
>  same public IP as Fezile then, but this shouldn't be a problem for build 
>  servers.
>  
>  Probably Mingw-w64 should also participate in this program (as an 
>  individual project this year), so I'm CC'ing this to Kai. I also believe 
>  they have build server needs and as they already got a VM on one of our 
>  servers, they might offer to share the build server if they win any and 
>  we don't :-)
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Colin
>  who is back
>  
>  
>  Matthias Kupfer &lt;mkupfer(a)reactos.org&gt; wrote:
> >   HI folks,
> >
> >  the German company Thomas Krenn AG (Server Hardware) announced on LinuxTag an
> >  open source support programme for open source projectes, that register during
> >  LinuxTag. So I've use this chance and made the first step and registered
> >  ReactOS. Now we need some arguments what kind of hardware do we need and why
> >  resp. for what purpose. Devs please take a look at thomas-krenn.com and
> >  select a usefull set of hardware and describe what is usefull for. I think we
> >  should define specific tasks, not "upgrade exisiting hardware", but e.g.
> > "New
> >  continuous integration server". Please send the description and the ID of the
> >  basket to me. The prices are:
> >  1st: hardware for 2500 € (excluding VAT)
> >  2nd: hardware for 1500 € (excluding VAT)
> >  3rd: hardware for 1000 € (excluding VAT)
> >  4th: hardware for 800 € (excluding VAT)
> >  5th: hardware for 700 € (excluding VAT)
> >
> >  They told me at the booth the chances increase with the detailed description
> >  of the intended use of the selected hardware (maybe combined with neediness).
> >
> >  Best regards
> >
> >  Matthias 
>  
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>  Ros-dev mailing list
>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[dmex]

A KVM adapter or switch is what you're after for 'some sort of pre-BIOS control
system to be able to control it booting, shut-down and turn on from the internet' ;)

dmex

-----Original Message-----
From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Jan
Blomqvist Kinander
Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2011 4:33 AM
To: ReactOS Development List; Kai Tietz
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Thomas Krenn Support

<Confirmation> Yes, I can host HW in our server room, I will be just as Colin said,
one LAN behind the Fezile server. The Fezile server has three LAN adapters, only one is
precently used, this is a waste :) . HW hosted here should preferably have some sort of
pre-BIOS control system to be able to controll it booting, shut-down and turn on from the
internet.</Confirmation>


"ReactOS Development List" &lt;ros-dev(a)reactos.org&gt; wrote on Sun, May 15th,
2011, 2:13 PM:
>   Hi Matthias,
>  
>  Thanks for registering us right away. For your information, we have 
>  already participated last year, but obviously didn't win anything.
>  
>  We actually have enough servers/VMs for non-resource-intensive tasks 
>  (Buildmasters, DNS, File and Web servers, etc.), but could always need 
>  dedicated build machines. Actually, it's just due to the generosity of 
>  Olaf that we even have all these new Buildslaves, which run on his 
>  private build machine (including Patchbot). Still, as all of them are 
>  on the same machine, we cannot run them concurrently, so a new build 
>  server could solve this problem easily. If there are major benefits in 
>  building under Windows, the potential new server could even become our 
>  first server with a Windows host OS.
>  
>  As far as I know, Jaix still offers to host more ReactOS servers in 
>  the data center of his company. They would run in a private LAN using 
>  the same public IP as Fezile then, but this shouldn't be a problem for 
>  build servers.
>  
>  Probably Mingw-w64 should also participate in this program (as an 
>  individual project this year), so I'm CC'ing this to Kai. I also 
>  believe they have build server needs and as they already got a VM on 
>  one of our servers, they might offer to share the build server if they 
>  win any and we don't :-)
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Colin
>  who is back
>  
>  
>  Matthias Kupfer &lt;mkupfer(a)reactos.org&gt; wrote:
> >   HI folks,
> >
> >  the German company Thomas Krenn AG (Server Hardware) announced on 
> >  LinuxTag an open source support programme for open source projectes, 
> >  that register during LinuxTag. So I've use this chance and made the 
> >  first step and registered ReactOS. Now we need some arguments what 
> >  kind of hardware do we need and why resp. for what purpose. Devs 
> >  please take a look at thomas-krenn.com and select a usefull set of 
> >  hardware and describe what is usefull for. I think we should define 
> >  specific tasks, not "upgrade exisiting hardware", but e.g. "New 
> >  continuous integration server". Please send the description and the ID of the basket
> > to me. The prices are:
> >  1st: hardware for 2500 € (excluding VAT)
> >  2nd: hardware for 1500 € (excluding VAT)
> >  3rd: hardware for 1000 € (excluding VAT)
> >  4th: hardware for 800 € (excluding VAT)
> >  5th: hardware for 700 € (excluding VAT)
> >
> >  They told me at the booth the chances increase with the detailed 
> >  description of the intended use of the selected hardware (maybe combined with
> > neediness).
> >
> >  Best regards
> >
> >  Matthias 
>  
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>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev 
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[Pierre Schweitzer]

Here, IPMI is a correct answer as well ;-).

"ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> wrote on Thu, May 26th,
2011, 8:13 AM:
>   A KVM adapter or switch is what you're after for
> 'some sort of pre-BIOS control system to be able to control it booting, shut-down and
> turn on from the internet' ;)
>  
>  dmex
>

[Jan Blomqvist Kinander]

I would be happy for a bit more info then just an abrevention like KVM or IPMI, how about
some links or some other good information. I would like to have a cheap solution for any
ATX computer by PCI or something.

/Jaix

"ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> wrote on Thu, May 26th,
2011, 8:33 AM:
>   Here, IPMI is a correct answer as well ;-).
>  
>  "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> wrote on Thu, May 26th,
> 2011, 8:13 AM:
> >   A KVM adapter or switch is what you're after
> > for 'some sort of pre-BIOS control system to be able to control it booting, shut-down
> > and turn on from the internet' ;)
> >  
> >  dmex
> >   
>  
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