[Sugar-devel] Fwd: News Item: ARM Donations

[Chris Leonard]

New GNOME ARM hardware upstream.  Just thought this might be of
interest with respect to XO-4 support.

cjl

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 6:03 PM
Subject: News Item: ARM Donations
To: Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis at gmail.com>
Cc: marketing-list <engagement-list at gnome.org>


Hi Everyone,

Alberto Ruiz suggested adding a news item about the recent ARM
donations that the GNOME Foundation received. We've drafted a news
item and have scheduled it to post tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at
10:00 UTC. If you have access to the website, you can check out the
preview here: https://www.gnome.org/?p=7132&preview=true. I'm also
including the text below.

Please let me know if you have any feedback. We can edit the post
before doing a social media blast for it later on Wednesday afternoon
or Thursday morning PDT.

Thanks!

Best,
Nuritzi


April 27, 2016

The GNOME Foundation welcomes ARM device donations

ORINDA, CA. Recently, the GNOME Foundation sent out a request seeking
donations of ARM build server hardware so that the GNOME project could
improve the support and quality of the GNOME desktop on ARM devices.

We quickly received a great deal of support from the larger GNOME
community and would like to thank and acknowledge the people and
companies behind each of the donations offered and accepted. All of
the donated systems will be used to build and test the GNOME desktop
and its applications on both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the ARM
architecture.

A big thank you to the following generous donors and supporters:

ARM

Andrew Wafaa from ARM quickly responded to our request and reached out
internally to find us some hardware. In just a few weeks, he was able
to secure an OVERDRIVE 3000 from SoftIron which has an octa-core AMD
Opteron A1100 64-bit Cortex A57 ARM processor with 16Gb of RAM and 1TB
hard disk. This machine is already being hosted in the Red Hat Phoenix
datacenter where other GNOME servers are located.

Banana Pi

Leo Xu from Banana Pi reached out to us and donated a total of five
Single Board Computers with different Allwinner ARM chips. We will
send them to developers interested in enabling such hardware for use
with GNOME.

Codethink & Endless

Paul Sherwood from Codethink reached out to us offering us several
blades at Codethink’s HP Moonshot system hosted by them in the UK.
Endless is sponsoring a project with Codethink to use this hardware to
make xdg-app runtime, SDK and app builds for ARM.

Qualcomm

Manik Taneja and Victor Ruiz from Canonical reached out to Ketal
Gandhi at Qualcomm about GNOME’s need for ARM hardware. Gandhi was
able to have Qualcomm donate four Dragonboard 410c Single Board
Computers from the 96boards project. These boards will provide a great
platform for application developers who want to test their apps in
ARM.

Other Offers

The Foundation would like to give its thanks to several other people
who offered help:

– Arc Riley who kindly offered rack space

– Michael Larabel from Phoronix who offered a lot of unused PandaBoards

– Kevin Fenzi from Fedora who offered hardware from the Fedora infrastructure

– Mikael Frykholm from Tranquillity Hosting offering us rack space

– David Tischler from miniNodes.com offering to buy Raspberry Pi 3s
for us if needed

– Yann Leger from scaleway.com who committed to offering ARM servers
in the future

ARM support will be added initially to the sdk.gnome.org initiative
where binary releases of the GNOME platform and applications will be
built. End-users and developers can use the results on a wide variety
of Linux systems, running inside xdg-app sandboxes. Later, the GNOME
project also hopes to add ARM support to the GNOME Continuous project,
so that the latest development versions of the whole GNOME desktop
will also be built and tested on ARM systems.

These initiatives will allow the Foundation and its developers to
build and test the GNOME desktop on ARM systems, helping to further
the mission of the GNOME Foundation to bring a free and powerful
desktop environment to as many people as possible.


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