Re: [cobalt-developers] What to do? and what I have

[Anders <andersb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Will wrote:
>> When I woke up yesterday for some reason I couldn't help but feel it was
>> time to just "throw in the towel" on the idea of there ever being a "cobalt
>> users group" of people that work together to build a better server...
> 
> That's what http://open.cobaltqube.org/ is and it's been around for a year
> already.

Currently the BlueQuartz project is about porting RaQ 550, and then Qube 3,
onto the Red Hat Linux platform - which currently means Fedora Core 1...

Blue Quartz is picking up the Cobalt development after Sun Microsystems,
just as the Fedora project is picking up Red Hat Linux after Red Hat Inc ?


This is running on whitebox hardware, currently there are no Cobalt-specific
parts that is related to the lovely blue hardware on this particular site.
(the Cobalt Users Japan does have a ton of other pages for such worship ;-)
There are some basic instructions on how to convert blue boxes into white.

Later on there might be a branch of Blue Quartz providing updates for the
4100R and 4100WG models as well as the new 5100R and 5100WG, but not now.
(doesn't seem much use to provide security updates for Cobalt while Sun
is still doing it too, and there are already a lot of packages available?)


And Sun India will be cranking out updates for up to THREE YEARS more,
even if those are related to security patches and not any new features:

http://www.sun.com/hardware/serverappliances/eol.html [Service Guidelines]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=cobalt/index&nav=patchpage/


If Zeffie wants to go ahead and provide resources for RaQ 4 and XTR,
that would actually be a good COMPLIMENT to the Blue Quartz project
since that only involves the CCE-based products: RaQ 550 and Qube 3
(and originally not even the originals, but only the next generation)

--anders


PS. There are plenty of new hardware appliances in the works as well:
    See http://open.cobaltqube.org/docs/modelinfo.html for a list ?