[cobalt-users] Re: Status of the Cobalt Mailing Lists

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> What are we up to now ?? We need a permanent solution !

CobaltFacts has a fairly active list, and most of the "regulars" on the 
cobalt-* lists have been over there "in parallel" for some time now.

> Craig.... does this all mean that the chance of releasing patches are
> reduced to zero ? Or can we expect somesort of final OS update or
> something. Just wondering....

Patches aren't related to the mailing lists. Sun policy is to 'maintain' 
products for a set period past the EOL date. I think it's 3 years. RaQ 4 and 
Qube 3 probably have a year or so to go; 550 about 2 more years.

But there are few Cobalt engineers left there that are working on patches (and 
probably none that are 'full time'), so you'll most likely see responses to 
major security holes and that's it. I wouldn't count on [m]any "feature add" 
releases for any of the Cobalt products... from Sun anyway.

> Once again thanks for keeping the list server in the air for such a long
> time in your spare time.

Hear hear! Much appreciated by everyone in the community!