[dot] Sun and Frontline Support KDE with Donation of Server

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1201744216/

From: Jes Hall <>
Dept: shining-brightly
Date: Wednesday 30/Jan/2008, @17:50

Sun and Frontline Support KDE with Donation of Server
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   During a tutorial today on-stage at linux.conf.au
[http://linux.conf.au/], Sun Microsystems [http://www.sun.com] and
Frontline [http://www.frontline-is.com/] 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.