Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ 550 software questions

[Will DeHaan <null@xxxxxxx>]

canderso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 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?

XFS.

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

kernel 2.4.16C12-1 and glibc 2.2.3-C4.  

> Which versions of Perl, PHP, and Apache are used? 

perl 5.6.0-9, php 4.0.6-C4, Apache 1.3.20

> Are there plans to
> activly support Perl 5.6.X, PHP 4.2.X, and Apache 2.X in time on the 550?

perl, php, the kernel, glibc, apache, bind and all shipping applications
will be maintained.  Apache 2 can't be shipped until all the web apps
support it, specifically FrontPage.

> Which version of BIND?

9.1.1, chroot'd and non-root.

> 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,

Thanks!

> 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).

Understood.  It's hard and often a bad idea for us to use the latest
releases.  The difficulty is in formal qualification and long-term
reliability testing. 

Cheers,


	-- Will

-- 
Will DeHaan
Software Engineer              will.dehaan@xxxxxxx
Sun Cobalt                     Sun Microsystems, Inc.