Re: [cobalt-users] Installing a different OS

[Gerald Waugh <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 January 2002 12:32 pm, John M Troher wrote:
> I must wonder why also!
>
> Why pay that much money for a AMD system and toss all the
> cobalt custom goodies out the window when for half the money
> you could build a Pentium 3 1 ghz system with more redundancy
> and put redhat 7.x on it?
>
> That seems to be a total waste of money to me.
>

Well, I would also like to put a different distro on the RaQ3 or 4
I like the hardware!
I like the physical size of the box!
I like the low power consumption!
I like the blue color.

I only bought them because of the above features.

But, the kernel is old!
The updates come out slooowly. (even security related)!
The updates cause problems, particularly if you make changes to the system.

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