RE: [cobalt-users] [MASTER CD] [WHY ??] MAKE YOUR OWN QUBIC DISTRO

[Jason Ebacher <jasone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My question about the Qube is and the CD is...when will some one come up 
with a distro of linux that installs easy and is just a copy of the Qube or 
Raq ' s Setup...I think if there is a easy to configure distro that has the 
easy to use user interface and a easy setup it will be a big hit , I use 
the FREESCO linux router distro and it has a dns cache,  webserver, web 
based administration, and great (better than the Qubes) routing and 
firewall capabilities and it runs of a single floppy and loads everything 
to memory - no harddrive needed, and it could be set up by any one that 
knows the IRQ's and IO addresses of there ISA network cards in the system - 
if they have PCI 3com 905's it configures it's self , very easy to set up 
it just asks you questions about what you want enabled etc. If you add the 
ftp module and some other stuff like mail server you have the same OS as a 
Qube or RAQ, I am really shocked some one hasn't done this already, I mean 
the entire OS in these devices are open source, copy it and modify it for 
your needs and give it away....Has any one asked cobalt for the source 
code???

The other thing I thought was a good Idea was give away a OS like the 
Qube's and sell hardware that the OS is reconfigured for and make some 
money on the hardware and support for your cubic like distro...

If any one has used FREESCO  they know that it was made to support NE2000 
cards and older 3com's like 509's and  newer 905's, so make a distro like 
freesco and then sell the hardware to go with it, like a 10" slime green 
cube shaped case and mother board and the 3com 905 nics etc...another thing 
that would be cool a back up drive to go in or under the 10" green cube...

I personally would like to be able to buy the Qube from sun with out a OS, 
and add my own OS and stick a PCI video card in the slot and have a very 
unique desktop system, add a cd burner on the USB port and you got a cool 
looking BUT SLOW computer, a CPU update would help..

links: http://www.freesco.org

Digitally Yours,
Jason Ebacher

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