www/91046: [patch] add new pressrelease page - Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD

Thu Dec 29 02:40:06 PST 2005

>Number:         91046
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       [patch] add new pressrelease page - Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 29 10:40:03 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Daniel Gerzo
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
rulez.sk
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
>Description:
this diff adds new pressrelease page and required changes to other files.
built version is available at
http://www.sk.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-9.html

requested by: Jeremy C. Reed on www@
>How-To-Repeat:
it is simply missing ;)
>Fix:

--- news.diff begins here ---
diff -ruN news.orig/Makefile news/Makefile
--- news.orig/Makefile	Sat Nov  5 13:10:53 2005
+++ news/Makefile	Thu Dec 29 00:51:27 2005
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 DOCS+= press-rel-6.sgml
 DOCS+= press-rel-7.sgml
 DOCS+= press-rel-8.sgml
+DOCS+= press-rel-9.sgml
 
 # The yearly State of the Union address
 DOCS+= sou1999.sgml
diff -ruN news.orig/press-rel-9.sgml news/press-rel-9.sgml
--- news.orig/press-rel-9.sgml	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
+++ news/press-rel-9.sgml	Thu Dec 29 01:16:46 2005
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
+<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
+<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/press-rel-9.sgml,v 1.0 2005/12/26 01:50:00 somebody Exp $">
+<!ENTITY title "Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD">
+<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navabout.sgml"> %navincludes;
+<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
+<!ENTITY % newsincludes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %newsincludes;
+]>
+
+<html>
+&header;
+
+<!--
+<img src="../gifs/news.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="FreeBSD News">
+-->
+
+<p></p>
+
+<p><b>The FreeBSD Foundation received a donation of a blade system from
+Hewlett-Packard for use as a third-party software build cluster.
+This 20-node HP BladeSystem cluster triples the speed of the build
+process for i386 packages.</b></p>
+
+<p><i>"With this generous donation from HP, we are able to continuously
+produce up-to-date packages from more than 13000 ports of third-party
+software available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, at about three
+times the rate of the previous hardware cluster,"</i> said Kris Kennaway,
+member of the FreeBSD Port Management Team.</p>
+
+<p><i>"This directly benefits the users of FreeBSD through the rapid
+availability of new and updated software packages, and through the
+increased testing and QA of FreeBSD that the new hardware allows."</i></p>
+
+<p><i>"We at HP recognize the important role of FreeBSD in the Internet's
+global network infrastructure, and we are happy that the HP
+BladeSystem cluster can contribute to the on-going success of the
+FreeBSD Foundation,"</i> said Mark Potter, vice president of the
+Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem division.</p>
+
+<p><i>"They're just standard i386 systems, architecturally, with a very
+nice ssh- and serial-based management server,"</i> said Kennaway, who
+maintains the FreeBSD Ports cluster.</p>
+
+<p>Kennaway said FreeBSD has a few dozen other machines scattered
+around the globe for package builds. A big concentration of sparc
+machines hosted by Hiroki Sato in Japan include some large
+multiprocessor e4500's (10, 12 and 14 CPUs) that have been extremely
+valuable for SMP testing. Also, a couple of machines hosted by ISC,
+an amd64 hosted by Scott Long, three i386 machines at Yahoo! Korea,
+and sometimes Kennaway's own machines in Canada are used for the
+official package builds.</p>
+
+<p>The HP BladeSystem cluster is hosted at the Yahoo! datacenter in
+the San Francisco Bay area. In addition to Kennaway, Paul Saab
+and Peter Wemm from the FreeBSD project, and John Cagle from HP
+helped with blade system setup.</p>
+
+<h3>About The FreeBSD Project</h3>
+
+<p>The FreeBSD Project provides an up-to-date and scalable modern operating
+system that offers high-performance, security, and advanced networking for
+personal workstations, Internet servers, routers, and firewalls. The
+FreeBSD packages collection includes popular software like Apache Web
+Server, Gnome, KDE, X.org X11 Window System, Python, Mozilla, and over
+13,000 software suites. FreeBSD can be found on the Internet at
+<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">http://www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>More Information:</h3>
+
+<p>FreeBSD Ports webpage<br>
+<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/</a>
+<br><br>
+FreeBSD Package building logs and errors webpage<br>
+<a href="http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/">http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/</a></p>
+
+&footer;
+</body>
+</html>
diff -ruN news.orig/pressreleases.sgml news/pressreleases.sgml
--- news.orig/pressreleases.sgml	Sat Nov  5 13:10:53 2005
+++ news/pressreleases.sgml	Thu Dec 29 00:50:40 2005
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
 
 <dl>
 
+<dt>November 25, 2005</dt>
+<dd>
+<a href="press-rel-9.html">Hewlett-Packard donates blade cluster to FreeBSD</a>
+<p></p>
+<dd>
+
 <dt>November 4, 2005</dt>
 <dd>
 <a href="press-rel-8.html">FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0</a>
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