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vacant · 2006-02-24 10:08:32

82% when I donated, 191% now - looking forward to TWO servers or I want my money back!

iphitus · 2006-02-24 10:12:24

vacant wrote:

82% when I donated, 191% now - looking forward to TWO servers or I want my money back!

Probably will be an upgraded single server than originally thought, with the rest of the money saved for maintenance and later upgrades.

iphitus

shadowhand · 2006-02-24 10:46:21

The grapevine said something about 4Gb of RAM and maybe another CPU...

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-24 14:09:59

Invest the rest of the money at the stock market! Buy microsoft or red hat papers.

polarrr · 2006-02-24 14:19:54

Or wait for next big lottery

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-24 14:29:52

No, invest at the stock market + pay each archlinux user a dividend each year. Will raise arch in distribution lists over night, I guess . ... I am in doubt if I would like such a hype ... well, pay a dividend to the users that joined on 01 Dec 2003 would be enough.

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-24 14:35:55

btw talking about own donations is SWANKY.

but I think of a new status of membershift in the forum -
Moo-Crumpus
Forum resident
Donator ***

Number of stars would reflect number and amounts of donations, of course.

Thank god I am no dazzler!

FoPref · 2006-02-24 15:18:39

Hi,

you guys are really great! I am amazed about all these donations. Some days ago someone told on IRC "I would even spend money to get them having a working server". I thought the same.

This is another sign of how strong this (small?) community is. Great!

I have neither Paypal nor Credit Card ... If this is still up some days later, I will use a friend's Credit Card. So keep it up and use it for further maintainance / upgrades!

Ford

franzb · 2006-02-24 15:18:39

Feels good to be an "Archer"!!!

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-24 15:41:19

I can add so little, as I am a coding and packaging dyslexic. So donating here and then is my contribution, next to behaving unkind from time to time and beeing blamed as a butthead. Ah. not to forget, ruining my arch setup while trapping in scsi related bugs and reporting about it .

dtw · 2006-02-24 16:23:53

191% Is that right? Does that mean we get two servers?

jskier · 2006-02-24 17:02:43

FoPref wrote:

Hi,

you guys are really great! I am amazed about all these donations. Some days ago someone told on IRC "I would even spend money to get them having a working server". I thought the same.
This is another sign of how strong this (small?) community is. Great!

I have neither Paypal nor Credit Card ... If this is still up some days later, I will use a friend's Credit Card. So keep it up and use it for further maintainance / upgrades!

As long as I can remember they have always had a donation option, it just was never at the top of the main page and so attention-grabbing like it is now (ie. the fancy graph now over it's qouta). So have no fear, you can still give money down the road

ozar · 2006-02-24 18:29:43

Oh...My...God!

226% as I type this! It's gonna freak Judd totally out!

oz

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-24 18:39:51

Think so. Seems like a lot of peoples want a dividend ... sigh.

eedok · 2006-02-24 19:10:19

+$30 from me

if it reaches 300% do we get 3 servers? Or would we get premium high bandwidth hosting services?

lucke · 2006-02-24 19:14:35

Now, all the extra money should be used to buy all the devs and major contributors a lifelong supply of ... noodles! Yay!

Noodles for the community!

hackmeister · 2006-02-24 19:15:34

lucke wrote:

Now, all the devs and major contributors should use the extra money to buy themselves a lifelong supply of ... noodles! Yay!
Noodles for the community!

Just as long as it's not Raman. That stuff is garbage! I used to live on that crap when I was in college.

Dusty · 2006-02-24 19:29:37

I'd like to see some of the money go into an AMD64 machine for Judd so we can have the original arch developer hacking on the next generation Arch64.

Dusty

DanGray · 2006-02-24 19:43:17

This is awesome - if the Arch devs ever wondered how much people value Arch Linux here's the answer for them!

I really hope that an injection like this can really help Jud and the others do some awesome stuff and really make them feel valued! It's great to see all these users coming together and I really doubt that progress like we've see could have happened in many other projects out there.

Dan.

ozar · 2006-02-24 19:57:24

With progress like this, maybe it's time to start thinking about the first ever, Archlinux "Cluster".

oz

geekner · 2006-02-24 20:38:34

I sent $5 back when it was around 80%, I need a job.

mtrivs · 2006-02-24 21:39:28

This is amazing....OVER 200%....I wish i could donate more just because i would like to see this thing in the 300's, but i only had enough for one donation!

AndyRTR · 2006-02-24 22:06:54

Dusty wrote:

I'd like to see some of the money go into an AMD64 machine for Judd so we can have the original arch developer hacking on the next generation Arch64.
Dusty

Don't make me unemployed

Beside that I'd love to see official devs coding and supporting 64bit architecture

apeiro · 2006-02-24 22:20:35

A 64-bit machine is on my personal wishlist, but I don't think I'll be buying it with the Arch donations. I'll try to fund that baby out of my own pocket instead.

Dusty · 2006-02-24 22:47:10

Judd, you should maybe edit that post to include a huge thank you for the show of support you've had in this very short donation drive. In addition, Jason tells me you guys'll probably be putting the cash towards beer. Finally, I personally think you deserve a little gift from the community, go ahead and buy yourself a sparkling new 64 bit processor, friend, you deserve it. Anybody here dare to disagree?

Dusty

Arch Linux

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