[Mageia-sysadm] New hardware for mageia servers

[nicolas vigier]

On Mon, 03 Oct 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:

> > 
> > We need a server for packagers. But preferably something fast as multiple
> > people will be building packages at the same time. So the server at 60
> > euros per month would be better. Or we can buy a dell server with
> > 12 cores, 32GB for 2200 euros :
> > http://www.hupstream.com/~boklm/mageia/server-packagers.pdf
> 
> i think for buildnode we'll indeed want something good, but if we can't do 
> multiple builds/node than 12cores is overkill imho.

That's not for a build node, we already have build nodes. That's for a
server where packagers can login and start VMs, to test package builds
(like it was possible at mandriva). That could maybe also be used by QA.