Re: [cobalt-users] Introduction, Cobalt Linux distro questions

["John A. Federico" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> No, the iso is NOT uptodate
> <shameless_plug>
> However up2date OSRCDs are available at http://raqwre.com/osrcd.html
> </shameless_plug>

OK. OK. I think I'm sold, even though I had to root around your site to
find them...

;)

I'll contact you off-list with questions about this.


> In order to make Sun/Cobalt service a necessity, they put things in strange
> places and configure them such that you are dependent on Sun/Cobalt to keep
> the system running

This is expected. Other than corporate greed and lock-in, are there any
technical reasons for this?

If that's the case, I could probably just install mySQl, etc. from src,
correct?

What version of RPM would work?


> > (If there were a "Cobalt for Dummies Book", I'd buy it...)
>
> There is, only it's a $650.00 course offered by Sun/Cobalt.

Ouch. Not right now. Maybe in 6 months...

Thanks, Gerald.

Regards,

-jf.

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