[cobalt-users] RE: Need A Little Guidance...

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I don't honestly know the differences between them, other than that a
> RaQ2 has a MIPS processor and the 3 has an Intel Celeron.

Actually, the RaQ3 and RaQ4 use AMD's K6-2 chip -- RaQ3 at 300 MHz, RaQ4 at 
450MHz.

> Which means squat for my understanding of whether the box is useful to me.
> The only other thing that matters is that I'm trying to get a little 
> hosting done
> on the tightest budget possible; hence the used equipment market is 
> interesting.

MIPS Linux has far fewer binaries available for it; most developers 
write/compile for the x86 platforms. If you can get the source code and 
compile it yourself, you can run just about anything on MIPS Linux...

Basic functions like sendmail, Apache, majordomo, ProFTP, etc are 
pre-installed on the RaQ2, so you can do web hosting, email, FTP, mailing 
lists, etc without doing much besides configuring the IP address and 
uploading your content.

For "a little hosting" or "being useful" that doesn't involve 3rd party 
applications which aren't executable on MIPS, a RaQ2 might be just the 
server for you to try.



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