To: debian-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian receives UltraSPARC60 donation
From: "Nils Lohner" <lohner@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:41:18 +0100


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Debian Project
http://www.debian.org/
Debian receives UltraSPARC60 donation
March 17, 2000
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>> News

Debian has recently added another machine to its computing resources. The
system is an UltraSPARC 60 with dual 360Mhz CPU's and 512Megs of RAM. It
was donated by Sun Microsystems <http://www.sun.com/>;. To add to the system,
Sun also donated a Netra st A1000 Telecom Class storage array. The array
contains eight 9gig 10k RPM drives, for a total of 72gigs of raw capacity.
The storage unit, configured as a RAID 5 system, will serve as Debian's new
primary internal archive server.  IntraServer <http://www.intraserver.com/>;
also assisted in getting this system operational by donating the PCI
Differential UltraWide SCSI Controller that the array is attached to.

The system is currently running Debian's frozen SPARC GNU/Linux
distribution, potato (aka, Debian 2.2), utilizing a 2.2.15-pre11 SMP
kernel. The machine is being hosted at VisiNet <http://www.visi.net/>;,
a Winstar owned ISP <http://www.winstar.com/>;.

Debian wishes to thank all of the contributors of the system and hosting 
site as well as the developers who invested time and effort into testing and 
configuring the system for Debian's network.  Thank you!


>> About Debian 

The Debian project is an organization of many users who volunteer 
their time and effort.  Its tasks include maintaining and updating Debian 
GNU/Linux which is a free distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system, 
and the development of the Debian GNU/Hurd operating system.


>> Contact Information 

For further information, please send email to the Debian Press Team 
<press@debian.org> or visit the Debian homepage at <http://www.debian.org/>;

For more information about Sun Microsystems, please visit their home page at 
<http://www.sun.com>;, their Linux page at <http://www.sun.com/linux>;, or 
email Simon Lambert <simon.lambert@eng.sun.com>

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Nils Lohner                             E-Mail: lohner@debian.org
Debian Press Team                       Press:  press@debian.org