[cobalt-users] Qube 2- thanks for help!

[Brian <bmcewen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the posts over the last couple months about what exactly a 
Qube 2 could and could not do, how much I could trust it, etc.

I looked at the capabilities of the CobaltOS, looked at NetBSD 1.6.1, 
and NetBSD finally won out.  I can put in a big HD, have a much more 
secure box, many more up-to-date services, and there are 4000+ 
ready-to-use sources via pkgsrc which seem very current,  and many many 
precompiled binaries ready to install for NetBSD.  I've been worried 
about the services especially and it was like a weight coming off my 
shoulders to look at the NetBSD software and see the latest versions of 
Proftpd, sendmail, etc. etc.  sitting there, ported, ready  to go, all 
up-to-date.

Since I can now drop in a big IDE drive, my big external SCSI drive can 
be used for easy backups of the whole filesystem.

Plus I can easily use neat toys^H^H^H^H TOOLS like IceCast which would 
not happen for CobaltIOS (I think).

Thanks to Shon and his GigaCube page <http://www.shon.org/qube/> for 
mention of the pre-built .iso booter for network install of NetBSD on 
Qube 2 and Raq1 units; the NetBSD/cobalt support pages still list (as 
far as I can see) the "hard way" to get it done.  The net booter .iso 
worked a treat.

After the new year holiday I finally had time to set this system up; I 
think this will be great.  I really wanted to keep the CobaltOS on it, 
but it seemed it was going to be a lot of work, and I just could not 
see how it would  easily end up as secure or as featured as the 
alternative, in my hands.

Thanks again; and I"m sure I'm not done skimming the list for content.

Brian