Re: [cobalt-developers] XTR Kernel

["William L. Thomson Jr." <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan,

On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 13:16, Ryan Verner wrote:
> I've been asking these questions for over a year now, as with other users,
> and we haven't really gotten many answers.  There exists some great Sun
> employees who were (and I believe still are) active on this list, but hey,
> Sun gave them the pink slip.  If it wern't for these guys, I would have spit
> the dummy long ago - its indeed a sad day when a company gets rid of its
> best assets.

It's been a while, but sounds like I need to send an email to a contact
a Sun. Gordon Garb. He was the one to invite/put me on the list for
Sun's VIP day at Linux world. He is more on the Sun/Linux side now
rather than specifically Sun/Cobalt, but I am pretty sure he still has
some influence.

> I know, there's no excuse for it - 2.2.16 is horribly outdated, and the
> XTR's certainly aren't obselete, they're still very, very capable machines
> (ours has 70gig of raid, 800mhz PIII, and 1.5gig of ram.)

Yes, I am not to upset on the hardware, except that I can't use all of
it. Dual proc board, with a single proc. The software is another story
all together. It's limiting the hardware.

> These are all things Qbalt aims to resolve, and it'll be released Any Day
> Soon Now if I can get my dirty little mits on an XTR.

Released any day now is the app you have developing right? Not some sort
of OS upgrade from Sun/Cobalt right. If they have been working on a
major one of those, then I will be a happy campier. Although I doubt it.
I believe your reference was to your app?

If I had another machine, and use the XTR for development purposes I
would let you have at mine. So long as you did do bad things with the
access. However since my XTR is one of the main aspects of my production
env, I can't help out.

In fact I can barely do experimental things with it. Like playing around
with compiling my own kernel for it.

Very frustrating as all my other machines are RH 8.0 with custom
compiled kernels. All others, problem free. The XTR, well it's a pain.
 
One I would like to go away.

> Until then, its no go ;-(

Well depending on the next several months and how things go, you may see
my XTR on Ebay. ;)

> R
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William L. Thomson Jr.
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