Re: [cobalt-users] Getting the source to Cobalt updates

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> Where can I download the sources for the kernels in the RaQ3 updates
> RaQ3-All-Kernel-4.0.1.216C28III.pkg 

ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/kernel/old

> and RaQ3-All-Kernel-4.0.1-2.2.16C32III-4.pkg

ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/kernel/gen_III

> I complained before about Cobalt not following the GPL and making
> sources available and they made a half-hearted attempt for a couple of
> weeks, but nothing really changed.  I'm not about to pay Sun just to ask
> them to release the sources (as _required_ by the license).  Every time
> an update is released, the source needs to be released as well.

They actually are; there just isn't a coordinated place to put them, so you
have to look around at a couple of different servers.

But all that is changing, starting "now," (actually a few weeks ago) and
continuing into the near future until it's completed.  Soon, from what I've
been told to date, ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com will be the one official FTP
download site for all things Cobalt-related.  The hodgepodge of servers we
ran as Cobalt Networks are all being consolidated, and we actually have a
new technical resource (a former Cobalt SE like myself) in the Product
Management team who has as a main job description item to bring some sort
of order to the entire system.

I apologize for the confusion and problems you had trying to find the
kernel sources, and have already passed this on to the relevant "decision
makers."

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Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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