Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 & 2.4 kernel (link to unofficial release dead)

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Frank Joerdens wrote:
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> Greetings! As I am thinking about renting a RaQ3 for 99 Euros a month at
> http://www.hosteurope.de, I am wondering which upgrade options there
> are, seeing that the stock kernel & glibc that come with this machine
> are pretty old. I found a thread from last July:
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-security/2002-July/005679.html
> which provides a link to some unofficial 2.4 kernel distro at
> ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/thockin/2.4/
> which is dead however. Does anyone know if/where it can be found still?

  There is some info at http://cobalt.iceblink.org/rom/

> Any ideas as to upgrading glibc?

  Doesn't one of the patches upgrade glibc?

> Why do I think that I need a 2.4 kernel? - I'd like to have stateful
> firewalling via iptables, advanced (policy) routing (a.k.a. traffic
> shaping), and might like to put ipsec into the kernel. I also want a
> custom kernel anyway since I'd like to disable loadable modules for
> security reasons.
>
> What do I intend to do with it? - Run Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL mostly.

  If you have access to the server, put RaQ550 OS on it.
  If you use the 550 OS do te 500Mhz CPU upgrade, else SLOW.


Gerald
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