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Re: [cobalt-developers] Bits flying over fences ...



on 11/6/03 12:16 PM, Chris Johnson   (CJ) wrote:

> I'm sure an official sounding note will be packaged up
> soon, but as part of the EOL process for the Qube, Sun
> has decided to open source the Cobalt developed portions
> of the Qube distribution.

Very cool.

> Duncan Laurie, one of our Linux kernel engineers has
> already set up a sourceforge project for the boot rom
> environment.  I expect a Sausalito project will follow
> when someone inclined toward user mode gets to it.

I'd really like to see it "open" enough so it could run on MacOS X.  If
people are currently able to run Webmin on MacOS X, then it shouldn't be too
much of a stretch to get a Qube3 GUI running instead.

Cheers,  Malcolm