On 10/11/2017 08:53 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf via cfarm-users wrote: > On 2017.10.11 at 15:44 +0100, Jonathan Wakely via cfarm-users wrote: >> On 11 October 2017 at 15:41, CM Graff via cfarm-users >> <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: >>> You guys really over-reacted about this. >> >> Says the guy who waded into a thread about an OS he never uses, >> complaining about thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gear >> made available to anyone, no matter how dumb their attitude. > > I think this is too harsh. > He has a point after all. AIX is a dying and marginal OS just like > Solaris. So having a very powerful machine in the farm, that sits idle > most of the time because it has very few regular users, feels like a > waste of resources. Until you have a bug which only reproduces under AIX :-) At which point that resource is critical.
I largely agree with your thoughts on the long term viability of those platforms and without resources in the compile farm, their support is likely to bit rot at an accelerated pace. I'm no expert on PPC virtualization. But at some level inverting things so that linux was the host (and available in the farm) with an aix guest would make more sense in terms of hardware utilization. But I don't know how involved that would be. In the mean time I'll continue to be happy that IBM donates hardware into the farm and provides engineering resources to keep the GNU tools running and supported the most recent processors. jeff _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
