RE: [cobalt-users] What do do with a Raq1

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Even though it's processor and max RAM are low by today's 
> standards, these are still good boxes for low end tasks.  
> They make great DNS servers, web servers for static pages, 
> FTP servers and backup storage.  If it was my box, I probably 
> wouldn't use it for anything that doesn't involve one or two 
> specific tasks, as much because of the difficulty finding and 
> installing software on a mips machine and keeping it secure 
> as the low processor speed by today's standards (it wasn't 
> exactly lightning fast 4 years ago either).
> 

One good thing, IIRC, a lot of the hacks and security problems didn't
hit the RaQ2 because of the MIPS processor since the hacks weren't
designed for that.
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

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