RE: [cobalt-users] Other OS's on a qube?

["Justin" <ronin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > But what about us who have invested in hardware that is
> > rapidly becoming obsolete?  Do we just throw these servers
> > away? Or do we try to get a second life?
>
> No, reuse them of course. For example, smaller and older
> Qubes make great
> home gateways and intranet servers. I have one at home (16MB
> expanded to
> 80MB, 4.3GB) with a US Robotics Courier V.Everything external
> modem which
> hooks up my home LAN to the Internet via an ISDN line. Works
> like a charm,
> and I got it when the office moved to a bigger Qube2 (64MB,
> 13GB). Cost me
> $400.

Luckily I won my Qube2 in a local contest and have very little to loose.  I'm
currently using it in a home LAN as my gateway off of a 56k modem and it works
great.  Unfortunatly, there are some things that I would like to do with it that
the current cobalt setup doesn't seem to allow me to do (ie VPN and Zope).

> Touché. But then again, there is this thing about servers: if
> you have a
> Restore CD and keep all relevant patches on your own disk,
> then the Qube can
> run forever or until the hardware trashes. Just keep bequeathing it to
> smaller departments over time...

This is true, but back to my old question; is it possible to put RH6.2 on the
Qube2 as long as it is mips based?


- Justin