Re: [cobalt-developers] Sun is stopping Cobalt?

["Ryan Verner" <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:52:02 -0400, Kham Vue wrote
> When do you plan to release the above information?  Or where?  Our
> webhosting services are all on Cobalt servers.  It really bites that 
> SUN is killing off the RAQs but I think we can support it.   Your 
> publishing would greatly help us.

Don't know...  There's not a huge amount of work to be done until I'm going to
release a 0.5 'beta' release of Qbalt, just, like the rest of this year, all
my time seems to have vanished down a black hole :(

The main 1.x Qbalt tree is designed to be extensible/flexible, in the regard
that you can choose any daemon you want to do your mail, web, etc, and as long
as a definition file for it exists (and there's a nice easy to use web gui to
create them), it'll all work no problems.  One of the things that irritated me
about Cobalt was everything was hardcoded, and you were completely tied into
not just using X daemon, but often that particular version of it.

Getting this working is taking properly, though, is taking an incredible
amount of time.  Around a month or so, I forked my code into a 0.5 release,
and I've created a more cutdown version, with everything hardcoded to daemons
already there (postfix, apache, etc).  In other words, it'll be a reasonable
Cobalt replacement for now, and (hopefully) 1.0 can install right over the top
once it's ready, keeping your current settings/users all in place.

Anytime soon now I'll be simultaenously releasing development documentation, a
0.5 ISO, and committing all of my work into CVS - every week for me lately
turns into a snowball of events that leaves me working until insane hours
early in the morning, but it's due to a few situations which won't exist in
the short future.

R

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