Planet Sabayon Linux

I just want to drop a quick list of what’s been done in 2007 with the donated money, around 2500USD (not enough, still) with the promise I’ll talk about it in detail as soon as possible (I’m really really busy every day, sigh!)

• Bought around 5-6 new hard drives to substitute failing ones, size starting from 250GB to 500.
• Bought a new mainboard (Asus P5K) for the now old build server, an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (stepping G0, clocked at 3,2GHz), 4GB of DDR2 800
• Bought some cheap video cards to test Sabayon on: AMD, NVIDIA, 3dfx, Matrox (Intel is in my Notebook)
• Bought some cheap WIFI cards to test Sabayon on, around 10, more or less each for a different driver.
• Bought some old Socket939 mainboards + CPU to use as test platform
• Hosting bills (acutally 189$/yr on Dreamhost + 189$/mo for the dedicated one)
• Bought a new Entropy build server: Dell PowerEdge 860 Rack 1U (which will hopefully couple with ones donated in future ? ). This one will be placed at the University of Brescia, our new sponsor (more next week!)
• Electricity bills, isn’t that obvious?

So, a warm hug to all the people whose have contributed to this. If you are good at Math (but even if you aren’t), you’d notice that the amount of money donated is not enough to cover all that, in fact I just added my saves . We are growing, it’s great to see, and I believe in what I’m doing since Jan 2007, Entropy development is getting really exciting (with a GUI ready for Spring) but due to this, we still need resources, sponsors, donations. I promise you, donate and we’ll give back more. Actually, we’d need someone who could handle packages, overlays and some development. Don’t hesitate to write me.

Thanks again