Maybe if f-droid is important to you, donate, so they can buy newer build server?

benrutter 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not quite sure if I'm over reading into this, but this comes across as a snarky response as if I've said "boo, fdroid sucks and owes me a free app store!".

Appologies if I came across like that, here's what I'm trying to convey:

- Fdroid is important

- This sounds like a problem, not necessarily one that's any fault of fdroid

- Does anyone know of a plan to fix the issue?

For what it's worth, I do donate on a monthly basis to fdroid through liberapay, but I don't think that's really relevant here?

	▲	happosai 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You are right, my message comes through as too snarky. What I wanted to give is an actionable item for the readers here.

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nativeforks 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This has now become a major issue for F-Droid, as well as for FOSS app developers. People are starting to complain about devs because they haven't been able to release the new version for their apps (at least it doesn't show up on F-Droid) as promised

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chasil 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is Westmere the minimum architecture needed for the required SSE?

Server hardware at the minimum v2 functionality can be found for a few hundred dollars.

A competent administrator with physical access could solve this quickly.

Take a ReaR image, then restore it on the new platform.

Where are the physical servers?

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LtdJorge 3 days ago | parent [-]

Zen 2 Epyc would barely double the price of older platforms if you buy an entire server, and would run circles around them.

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chasil 3 days ago | parent [-]

A slow computer that does what you want is infinitely more valuable than a fast computer that does not.

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grim_io 3 days ago | parent [-]

why would a fast computer refuse to do what you want?

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chasil 3 days ago | parent [-]

[flagged]

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RealStickman_ 2 days ago | parent [-]

1. That's still perfectly possible 2. We're talking about x86_64 CPUs here that have been open to install your own software basically since they existed

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chasil 2 days ago | parent [-]

More modern x86 comes with significant problems.

The minimum is now eight cores on a die for both AMD and Intel, so running a quad core system means staying on 14nm. You may loudly criticize holding back on a quad core system, but you aren't paying $47,500 per core to license Oracle Enterprise database.

The eight core minimum is a huge detriment for commercial software that is licensed by core.

This, and this alone, shatters your argument. Any other questions?

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RealStickman_ 2 days ago | parent [-]

You can still get quad cores, here's an Epyc CPU with four cores [0]

Here's also a recent Xeon quad core [1]

Beside that, could you please show me where the F-Droid build server uses an Oracle Database?

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4004-... [1] https://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/products/sku/236193/i...

	▲	chasil a day ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know if F-Droid uses Oracle, and I don't care. For any software licensed by core count, modern systems are usually at a disadvantage. Next question please.

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ratdragon 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Did and doing regularly.