Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

2025-03-01 Thread Clout Tolstoy
They are old super micro systems, I can post them for more details but that could take a day to setup at the moment. Motherboard is a x8sax rev. 2 with procs, power supply and ATX case. One is max ram (24gb) the other may have 8 or 16gb. I used to use them as Gentoo Linux build hosts with distcc

Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

2025-03-01 Thread ron minnich
That is OK I can always put them in the garage On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 13:19 Clout Tolstoy wrote: > Ron, I have two older 8 core systems that max at 24gb of ram. They are > kinda loud, but you could just have them if you want to pay shipping. > Literally collecting dust. I can get the full specs

Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

2025-03-01 Thread B. Atticus Grobe
On Sat Mar 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM CST, ron minnich wrote: > Did you check GitHub/rminnich/9front 9front branch? That would appear to be my mistake; I was on the `ron_nix' branch, and only checked the `front' branch. Thanks for straightening me out! > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 21:52 B. Atticus Grobe

Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

2025-03-01 Thread Clout Tolstoy
Ron, I have two older 8 core systems that max at 24gb of ram. They are kinda loud, but you could just have them if you want to pay shipping. Literally collecting dust. I can get the full specs later if you're interested. On Sat, Mar 1, 2025, 8:20 AM wrote: > Quoth ron minnich : > > so, this even

Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

2025-03-01 Thread ori
Quoth ron minnich : > so, this evening, I ran /bin/date on a NIX Application Core (AC) for the > first time in 14 years, on core 1 of my t420s. There are still issues, and > work to do, but ... this was nice to see. Congrats. > Other help: identity good netboot x86 boxes, on which NIX will boot,

Re: [9fans] NIX: first light

2025-03-01 Thread ron minnich
Did you check GitHub/rminnich/9front 9front branch? On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 21:52 B. Atticus Grobe wrote: > On Fri Feb 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM CST, ron minnich wrote: > > so, this evening, I ran /bin/date on a NIX Application Core (AC) for the > > first time in 14 years, on core 1 of my t420s. The