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FreeBSD Developers Want List

This page lists various developer hardware needs. If you are interested in supporting the FreeBSD Project, you might consider donating some piece of hardware on this list to the Project.

We provide the FreeBSD username of the developer who needs a resource, the country they are in (for shipping purposes), the equipment they desire, and the use to which that equipment will be put.

For information on tax deductions and process, please see the information on the main FreeBSD Donation Liaison office page.

If you would like to donate something on this list, please contact donations@FreeBSD.org.

On a general note, we need a variety of Sparc64 machines for testing and improving our Sparc port. Even small, old (or new!) Sparc64 machines are perfectly usable. No matter which country you're in, we almost certainly have someone local who could use it.

Developer ID Developer Country Equipment Desired Equipment Use Date Added
ade Texas, USA Mini-ITX, Athlon X2 processor, 2/4GB RAM, 1 (pref 2) SATA-II drives. Going to be in my home office, so I can sacrifice performance in favor of less noise pollution. 2008/09/10
des Norway 1 GB memory sticks: 184-pin DDR SDRAM, ECC + REG, PC2100 CL 2.5. Up to 20 (two each for 10 scavenged 1U servers). Test cluster. 2011/10/02
jcamou AZ, USA. Gigabit switch Development/build cluster. Any kind of switch could work. 2005/08/11
jkoshy Rishi Valley, India. 4-port USB KVM switch & USB<->PS/2 adapters Facilitate working with multiple machines. 2008/09/02
jkoshy Rishi Valley, India. Solar backed UPS (500W x 4-6 hrs) Permit work on FreeBSD in the absence of grid power. 2008/09/02
jmg California, USA Fast multiprocessor AMD64 capable machine (dual core CPU ok). General build box to support FreeBSD work including ARM and multi-arch testing of patches. 2006/07/17
kientzle California, USA Tape drive, preferably SCSI DDS-3 or later bsdtar testing and development. 2010/01/24
marcel CA, USA 1GB of low-profile PC133 SDRAM (168pin DIMM). Memory can be buffered or unbuffered, preferably one 1GB DIMM or two 512MB DIMMs. Low-profile is a must. ECC is optional. More memory allows for better workloads when testing code in SMP setups. 2007/05/26
marks The Netherlands ACPI laptops (also for lend) (1) ACPI laptops that work, to test new code on.
(2) ACPI laptops that don't work, (to try) to fix.		 2004/12/19
markus Germany IBM ThinkPad Dock II (1) Enhance the acpi_ibm(4) driver.
(2) Enhance docking support.		 2005/06/13
matusita Japan 2-3 build machines:Pentium4 2GHz+,20GB+ ATA66+ HDD,256MB+RAM, 100base-TX NIC,serial, etc. Rebuild dying snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org. 2002/08/05
matusita Japan FTP server:Pentium3/Celeron 1GHz+,10GB+ ATA66+ HDD,100GB+ storage (RAID0+1 desirable),256MB+RAM, 100base-TX NIC,serial, etc. Rebuild dying snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org. 2002/08/05
nwhitehorn Madison, WI, USA IBM PPC desktop or rackmount hardware with a POWER4/5/6/7 or Cell CPU Add support for these machines. 2010/08/17
obrien Silicon Valley, USA AlphaServer DS15. continued FreeBSD/alpha development and testing. 2005/12/09
obrien Silicon Valley, USA 1U or 2U rack-mount cases, with power supplies. Build into AMD64 reference machines for the FreeBSD.org cluster. 2004/08/24
portmgr Silion Valley, California 36GB or greater 1" high SCSI hard drives Add more capacity to i386 and sparc64 package building clusters. 2009/07/23
portmgr worldwide sparc64 gear We could specifically use rack-mounted Sparcs (such as SunFire V120, V210, or V240) for our package building cluster in the US. 2009/07/23