Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt Alternative

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/13/00 4:37 AM, H.P. Stroebel at hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> in the past few days, I
> 
> - saw webmin (i am impressed, as we (me and my opera browser)
> don`t like the graphics and javascript intensive admin panels
> of the cobalt)

This package is good for admining a system in general, but not going to be
that helpful for administering 'services' like mail accounts, apache virtual
hosts, etc.  It won't provide a 'total solution' like Cobalt's interface
does.  It is still a fairly decent product.

> - saw an advert of the new ibm netfinity 4000r servers
> (i think i`ll like it except the price)

The Netfinity 4000r is pretty cool, but lacks Hot Swap hard drives so that I
can set up a system that can survive a single disk failure and not go down
when I replace it.  So as far as a co-located machine that is fairly mission
critical, its not acceptable really (IMHO).

I would suggest taking a look at the Sun Netra T1 (w/ Solaris), HP LPr, Dell
2450, and the VA Linux Full-On 2x2 instead.

-k