[cfarm-users] Future of cfarm186/cfarm187/cfarm188 at OSUOSL

[Jonathan Wakely]

Does anybody else get delivery failures for all emails to Thorsten's
mirbsd.org server?

The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. For more
information, go to https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720
[bonn.mirbsd.org. 2001:470:1f15:10c:202:b3ff:feb7:54e8: timed out]
[bonn.mirbsd.org. 217.91.129.195: timed out] [fish.mirbsd.org.
2001:470:6f:94a::1: timed out] [fish.mirbsd.org. 62.138.145.52:
FAILED_PRECONDITION: connect error (111): Connection refused]


On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 07:59, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Jan 2026, 03:05 mirabilos via cfarm-users, <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
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>> Denis Ovsienko via cfarm-users dixit:
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>> >Haiku would not survive long in CFarm:
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>> >~> id
>> >uid=0(user) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),101(party)
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>> >(Multi-user support is not complete, e.g. the OS implements a concept
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>> Oh.
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>> Might be interesting to have a way for users to spawn a Haiku VM
>> for themselves and delete it once done.
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>> (The once done part is harder, of course…)
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> IMHO it would be a waste of very powerful and valuable hardware (and admin time) to have too many obscure, niche systems that most users are never going to use.
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> Allowing many users to run large builds in parallel for software like GCC and LLVM seems like a better user of resources than installing toys that need lots of admin time and custom setup.
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