HP PA-RISC Linux Developers needed!

Hiya Folks, First off, Merry Christmas and a Happy and healthy New Year to everyone here! I've been working with a couple of developers during the last few months to get 3 of my HP PA-RISC boxes back up and running with Debian HPPA Linux. Debian dropped support for hppa a few years ago, due to lack of certified developers (DD's), but a few die-hards managed to keep it going outside of the normal repositories at http://www/parisc-linux.org . We would really like to see the port listed as an active architecture again in the Debian repos, but in order to do so, they require at least 5 *active* developers to maintain the port. Thanks to Helge Deller (Germany), John David Anglin (Canada), and a few custom kernel re-writes, we now have a stable 32 & 64 Bit SMP kernel (currently at 3.11-1 'unstable' and 3.11.2 'experimental'), and we have 3 buildd servers running on 2 different machines (at my location), generating up-to-date packages for download at http://www.debian-ports.org . Dave Anglin is currently working on setting up another buildd on one of his machines to balance the load out a bit. :) Bottom line is, people can now 'debootstrap' new installs on their hardware with a basic 'lifimage' CD available for download at: http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable-boot-image/lifimage and a network connection, to pull the necessary packages from debian-ports.org. We are in desperate need of additional developers familiar with working with the older HP PA-RISC hardware, and know something about coding for this architecture in Linux, and especially somebody that may know a bit about back-engineering some of the HP graphics cards to support Xorg and a regular GUI desktop. As it stands, we only have graphics support for the rare, and usually expensive, ATI FireGL-UX PCI-X type cards, and it's still a bit buggy. So dig out your old HP RISC boxes and dust them off, and see if you can get them loaded up and running, and more importantly, if you're interested in having an up-to-date Linux distribution that actually makes these bullet-proof servers and workstations usable again, contact me off-list and I'll get you connected with Dave Anglin and/or Helge Deller, two of the main forces in this project at the moment, and they can get you pointed in the right direction, if you're up for some development work! You can see a bit of our current progress (mainly with my original Visualize J6750 workstation), and two (new to me) machines that were donated by a former developer in the project, in my website hosted on the J6750 along with 2 of the buildd servers, a full, *current*, LAMP server to handle the website, and numerous other little projects, all running on 2 - 875mhz. PA-RISC processors and 7 gb. or so of RAM. You can see that here: http://www.landcomp.net:884/wp/ along with my newly acquired RP-2470 (A500) server, and another J6000 series workstation. We're still deciding what kind of tricks we want to make it do, so it's offline at the moment, but ready to go, for graphics development or whatever. :) Happy Holidays, and we hope to hear from you soon! :) Dave L. -- Dave Land Land Computer Service xmechanic at landcomp.net ICQ: 676030523