Hello, On 09/20/2013 11:11 PM, Brandon Moore wrote:

Alexander: Thank you so much, sir

Peter:

Thank you so much for your interest in Servergy! We did receive your request and we are currently finalizing pricing and availability for both the CTS-1000 and P-Cubed at this time.

Wow, that's great news!

However, i can answer your questions from your request:

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P-cubed, if it has at least two Ethernet ports

The current plan for the P-Cubed is an single ethernet port. A second Ethernet port would make it great board for security / networking guys.

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I have two plans with the machine: porting the Zorp proxy firewall (developed by BalaBit) and see how it performs compared to x86.

Can you tell me more about your timeframes for porting, testing (success criteria and plan) and evaluation? Actually there is no timeframe. It is not an official BalaBit plan, at least not an official company goal. On the other hand many of my

colleagues support the idea and find it very interesting. Zorp is often running now on huge x86 servers, and many of us think, that QorIQ would do the same job at a fraction of the size or energy requirements. And a successful PoC could turn it into a company project on the long run.

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And as an openSUSE fan, I'd like to bring up the openSUSE Power port on it (which I used earlier on Genesi PowerPC machines).

We have created live-fs of our own port of SUSE, as well as other applications/utilities for Linux like OpenStack and memcached. I would be interested what other things you would want to explore with our platform. We are definitely looking for more software contributions compiled for our platform.

Personally I did Linux distro QA for a couple of PowerPC machines for about five years (I must admit, that I did boot my Pegasos2 this year only once...). This included creating installers, reporting bugs, asking for features to make life of distro users easier. I did it mostly for openSUSE and Ubuntu, sometimes other distributions. My other interests are different IDS softwares, like Bro, Suricata, etc. Bye, CzP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org