Re: [cobalt-users] OS RAQ3 on a normal i386

["Todd Lukes" <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Is it possible the RAQ3 OS to copy on a normal i386 PC?
>
> No, the boot loader is different.
>
> The RAQ is not a clone.
>
> Buy a copy of RedHat and install it on every machine in site, because
> that's what Cobalt uses as the basis for their OS.
>
> I have copied over several small binary utility programs from RedHat intel
> to the Raq3 without problem.
>
> -HJC
>

Are you sure that they use RedHat as their basis?  My investigation yields
that they are using the RPM (which is Open Source) but developing their own
kernel and list of packages, which makes them not RedHat.  The advantage
that you are talking about is the Open Source model of a standard OS -
Linux.

By the way, I recently asked several people at a trade show about Cobalt's
support of Open Source and was less than pleased at the responses.  Not nice
to use from the community without returning something.  If I am wrong on
their support of the community let me know.

Todd