Re: [cobalt-users] The new $995 Sun UNIX(r)/RISC King of the road! - Don't believe the F.U.D.!

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> If you are correct in the assertion that the RaQ/Qube lines will be
> dumped, it makes sense to me that someone begin working on an
> adminstration suite that would allow relatively new "new-bees" like myself
> to begin making the transition from the Cobalt training wheels(nice turn
> of phrase) towards the unfettered system.

It's the "Cobalt training wheels" that fetter linux.  Otherwise it's no
less capable than the Solaris version inside the Sun box.  Imho, of
course.

> I would hope there's a middle ground between the training wheels and the
> other extreme of no administration suite, no packages, ya' gotta be a
> total guru to make it even boot up.

It's not that hard to boot <smile>.  And there are middle-ground
solutions, which you can certainly use on the Sun, and other unix/linux
solutions:  Plesk.  Webmin.

But they're not quite the ease of use of the Cobalt.

Jeff
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