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Aye! |
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:26:38 -0700 |
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> From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> |
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> To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> Cc: kingtaco@g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-trustees] non-monitary proposal to help Donnie |
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> Greets! |
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> Donnie lost his system[1], which sucks for us in terms of continued X support, |
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> a critical part of many Gentoo installations. |
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> After talking with Kingtaco, he agreed that (if the trustees agree), we loan |
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> Donnie the old board/cpu from Nemo (the pre-AMD donation nemo). This board |
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> has sat unused mainly because there is a badly burnt transistor on the board, |
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> but nemo was working fine when we took it down. The burn is close to the |
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> SATA and USB chipsets, neither were being used by Nemo. I think this was the |
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> factor that allowed it to work as it did. With this in mind it has no |
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> intended future use in production by the AMD64 or releng teams. |
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> There would be no cost to get this to Donnie, as he lives here in Corvallis. |
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> He can swing by my office and pick it up as soon as the Trustees agree on |
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> this (if it is agreeable). |
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> Cheers, |
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> -Corey |
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> [1] - http://www.livejournal.com/users/spyderous/53013.html |
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