Re: [cobalt-users] OSRCD (slightly off topic?)

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On 11/17/02 1:49 PM, "E.B. Dreger" wrote:

> GW> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:24:23 -0500
> GW> From: Gerald Waugh
> 
> 
> GW> It's too bad!
> GW> Sun does not support it's customer base!
> GW> They should be churning out ISO that are up2date.
> GW> And those small '/' and '/var partitions are awful.
> 
> Small /var is a problem, I agree.  Small / is not... very little
> needs to go there.  IMHO, if it's not needed to get the system
> "up and running" and mount /usr (perhaps from the network), it
> probably needn't go on the root partition.  In the past, I ran
> 50 MB / by choice; now I usually use 128 MB.
> 
> Frankly, I think a small root partition is a _good_ idea.  It's
> much faster to fsck and have a running system in case of
> disaster.
> 
> 
> GW> I really have better places to put my rexources anyway!
> GW> Thanks for the support.
> 
> Perhaps it's time for some list members to make their own
> appliances.  I know we install packages _much_ sooner than Cobalt
> updates are released... and I'm positive the number of systems
> is orders of magnitude smaller than the number of Cobalts out
> there. ;-)  [i.e., effort/benefit ratio is higher for us.]
> 
> I shan't resort to PJ-style Sun bashing, but I will allude to
> those thoughts and question Mr. Mcneally's sense of direction...
> "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," I suppose.
> 
>
There is a Qbalt movement starting, not really doing anything yet, I think
the idea is to load Debian on the Raq's and then come up with a very Cobalt
type GUI.

Also there is a list and site started to sort of do that, get members
together to help the others patch their boxes and discuss options to
Sun/Cobalts fixes.  www.cobaltfacts.com / list.cobaltfacts.com
(Sun bashing/Complaining allowed:)
-- 
Thanks!!
David Thurman
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