Re: [cobalt-users] does cobalt talk to each other?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just an observation, Jeff...

You are truly worth your weight in gold.  That said, it's a shame (and I 
mean exactly what I say) that Cobalt must reply with a knee-jerk "you broke 
it and you have to pay to fix it" to every request for help.

But... that said...

You and I (and a few of the others of us on the list) have been playin with 
various flavors of 'nix/'nux for a few years now, and we've never had 
support, so we've done whatever we've had to do.  Others of us on this list 
take the Cobalt advertising for it's word, and think they've bought an 
appliance.  Then they try to change it, following this list.  Perhaps there 
should be a Cobalt Users list and a Cobalt Hackers list <smile>.

And I wish cobalt wouldn't make such a big deal out of "voiding the 
warranty"; the fact is that the warranty does NOT guarantee data recovery, 
and the "fix" is usually to reinstall everything to factory specs.

Of course if one uses ONLY the gui, one would think that drastic a step is 
never necessary... but to call it a warranty <wry grin>...???

(No need to respond to anything that would get you fired; you're too good 
to lose <smile>.)

Jeff

At 11:21 AM 1/19/00  Jeff Bilicki wrote:
> Hello Gary,
>     I post pre-releases in rpm format of upcoming updates that Cobalt
> will officially release in pkg format at a future date.   These are in
> no way official Cobalt releases, also you you might have noticed in the
> FTP path the word "experimental".  Also, from
> ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental/security/README:
> "All rpms in this directory ARE in the process of being tested by Cobalt
> and are NOT SUPPORTED

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