[BlueOnyx:01256] Re: Blue Onyx on a Cobalt Qube 3?

[Atopian]

There (used to be) a cobalt-rom sourceforge group with a 2.6 rom for
qube3 and raq3/4.  Not sure where it went off to though.

If this is for hobbiest purposes, I have my (now slightly outdated)
work on 2.6 cobalt roms at http://rangernet.net/cobalt/

I haven't updated this in about two years, so you'll probably need to
fiddle with it some more to get a 'newer' version of 2.6 into the rom.
 Though with the cobalt-rom group missing, I am not sure where a copy
of the rom source is hosted.

If this is anything beyond the hey cool factor of a qube though, I
would advise investing a few hundred into something of substance.
Modern distros tend to run a little sluggish on the K6-2 350's that
drive the qubes.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
<cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Steve Howes <steve at geekinter.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It wont be easy. Getting the 2.6 kernel to boot on a Qube is a real
>>> bitch. The ROM has kernel size limits which generally causes problems.
>>> Found a 2.4 once that worked.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> Heard of Strongbolt anyone??
>
> Sure.   And we even have a couple still running somewhere in the
> datacenter.  Kudos to the osoffice.co.uk crew - it does work!  But even
> a "hotrod" 550 or Qube just isn't going to have the muscle to keep up
> with a lot of the bloat that has found its way into websites and email
> in the past few years.
>
> Users with mobile devices (biggest offender being iPhone) are requiring
> more IMAP sessions to remain open simultaneously, websites continue to
> increase in complexity with dynamic sites becoming the norm, and the
> continued acceptance of broadband means users are comfortable putting up
> larger images and other files for download.
>
> When you can buy really good modern hardware for a few hundred bucks and
> load on a BlueOnyx ISO, or get a BlueOnyx VPS for under $30/month, it is
> becoming increasingly difficult to justify the trouble and limitations
> of dealing with the old blue boxes.   Unless it's just "for fun."
>
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