[OpenAFS] Hardware Grants from Sun

[Christopher D. Clausen]

Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
> Tom has proposed that OpenAFS submit a hardware grant request to Sun.
>
> It is believed that we can obtain up to $100,000 in 1U X86 boxes that
> we could use for a test infrastructure.  Sun may be tempted to
> provide this equipment if OpenAFS was to state a desire to target
> OpenSolaris as a preferred operating system for OpenAFS deployments.
>
> Please let us know if you believe this is a good or bad idea.

Must all the Sun provided machines run Solaris?  Or can they be used for 
Linux / Windows / whatever else x86 testing as well?

I personally prefer Solaris for OpenAFS servers, but have also had 
trouble with Solaris on non-Sun x86 hardware.

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