Thanks to the generous response of the NetBSD community, the NetBSD

Foundation is pleased to announce a hardware infrastructure upgrade.

Responding to a special request issued a month ago in this mailing

list and widely disseminated, almost 300 contributors donated

approximately $27,000 to help modernize and improve our service

machines.
We used your donations to purchase five new machines; three of

those machines will be added to our nightly build infrastructure

and two of those machines will become anonymous cvs servers.
These machines cost the foundation approximately $18,000 and have

the following specifications:
	Anonymous CVS servers (two machines)

	2 CPU [2 cpu Opteron 244 (1.8GHz)]

	8 GB Memory (8 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)

	150 GB Disk (4 SATA 36.7GB 10K RPM drives)
	Build Servers (three machines)

	4 CPU [2 cpu (dual core) Opteron 265 (1.8GHz)]

	4 GB Memory (4 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)

	210 GB Disk (3 SATA 74GB 10K RPM 8MB Raptor drives)
The two anonymous CVS servers will quadruple the capacity of the

current service and improve its reliability. The three new build

servers will allow us to build the two supported release tags and

the head continuously, providing binaries for all architectures

every two days, while also greatly expanding our ability to provide

popular binary packages.
As an all-volunteer effort, the NetBSD Foundation has no paid staff

and no administrative overhead.  All donations are used strictly

in support of the project. The remaining funds will be used towards

more hardware purchases as needed and to pay tax preparation fees.

(If you know an accountant who would would like to help the project

by assisting us next year with our tax filing, please let us know.)
We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who donated,

and to those who spread the word on our behalf. Each contributor

has received a contribution receipt and the option to be listed in

our donors page. If you have contributed and did not get a receipt,

please send mail to finance-exec@netbsd.org.
About the NetBSD Project
The NetBSD Project is an international collaborative effort of a

large group of people, to produce a freely available and redistributable

UNIX-like operating system. In addition to our own work, NetBSD

contains a variety of other free software, including 4.4BSD Lite

from the University of California, Berkeley.
The NetBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization as per section

501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  All donations are 100%

tax deductible.
For more information, see the NetBSD worldwide web home page,

http://www.netbsd.org.
Best Regards,
Christos Zoulas

On behalf of The Board of Directors of the NetBSD Foundation, Inc.