[cobalt-users] RaQ 550 software questions

[canderso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I am very interested in the new RaQ 550 and as such, have many questions
regarding its software configurations. Perhaps some of the early adopters
and folks of Sun Cobalt can answer some of these.

What filesystem is used on the 550? ext2? ext3? reiserfs?

What exact version of kernel 2.4.x is used? Which version of glibc?

Which versions of Perl, PHP, and Apache are used? Are there plans to
activly support Perl 5.6.X, PHP 4.2.X, and Apache 2.X in time on the 550?

Which version of BIND?

I am currently using mostly RaQ 4i machines. They are serving me great,
especially with the **very** helpful goodies at www.pkgmaster.com!! I am
slowly moving to RaQ XTR for additional performance and RAID 5 across four
disks. A .pkg of PHP 4.1.2 for the XTR would be quite helpful. The RaQ 550
is an attractive alternative to the XTR, even with only two disk drives.
Sun Cobalt has done a great job, I would just like to see quicker adoption
of newer versions of various web-related packages. (ie, PHP 4.1.X and Perl
5.6.X). 

Thanks in advance!

- Colin