Re: [cobalt-developers] Where Is The Future?

[josh <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:15:01PM -0500, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> I posted this to the Cobalt-Users list last night, but I realized that the 
> real target audience for this is most likely the Cobalt Developers. 
> Specifically, any/all people that are working with the Cobalt code now 
> that it has been Open Sourced....

I see the four suggestions you made as bascially two.

1. Continue to support existing cobalt hardware with the cobalt
   interface. Many of us are using Cobalt Hardware and at least in my
   case my problems have been older kernels and versions of perl. The
   hardware was find but the software wasn't packaged for the server
   as I would have liked. While it is possible to take cobalt hardware
   and get different linux distros to work - I don't see that as
   serving my immediate need. [ My immediate need is to get an XTR to
   run the latest 550 OS which it can't realy because of some issues
   with memory management and raid. And to get it to run current
   version of software. - I have recend version of perl and MySQL from
   nuonce, but they should really be the ones in the OS as well. It is
   a pain to have multiple versions of perl ]

2. Word on the interface so it can be used easily for any unix
   box. That is with work it could become as common as webmin. I think
   it is a better interface, but it suffers from leaving out features
   it needs. [ e.g. Setting serial numbers in DNS ]


What I really want is to get another couple of years as a dns, web,
mail, proxy, iptable networking tool, etc server from my XTR. Given
Moore's law and the current state of servers [ a rather fancy two
processor Mac OSX G5 Server costs less now than my XTR did two years
ago. ] all of these things are headed for the trash, but they are
perfectly capable given the lack of any new server tasks.

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Josh Kuperman                       
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