[BlueOnyx:06250] Re: Newbie Install

[Bart P]

It's more a project than anything.  And mostly because I can't figure out
how to get a recent version of php or mysql installed on the Cobalt OS that
came with it.

Thanks for your suggestion, albeit not the direction I'm taking this.

-Bart

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <
cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:

> Jon McCauley wrote:
> > On 1/4/2011 5:04 PM, Taco Scargo wrote:
> >> You might want to contact the Strongbolt2 people to see where they are
> with having a Strongbolt3 version based on BlueOnyx.
> >>
> http://www.osoffice.co.uk/shop/strongbolt-installer-standard-edition-download-p-9.html
> >>
> >> With regards,
> >>
> >> Taco Scargo
> >> taco at blueonyx.it
> >>
> > Most of my Raqs are now at the dump....I even tried the Strongbolt back
> > in the time, but most of us on the list know it would be just easier to
> > build a White Box PC and load BO
>
> Whole-heartedly agreed.  I know that I've said it before plenty of
> times, and at the risk of sounding like a "hardware snob", there just is
> not any benefit to trying to run BlueQuartz or BlueOnyx on a RaQ
> anymore.  Not when you can pick up decent P4 pizza-boxes for the price
> of a few cups of good coffee.
>
> If you're just looking for a project, and you enjoy beating your head
> against a wall for minimum returns, then by all means have at it and enjoy.
>
> If you have any aspirations of actually running a website, don't try to
> make the RaQ do what it was never built or intended to do.   As we say
> in Texas, don't try and teach a pig to sing.  It wastes your time and
> annoys the pig.
>
> If your goal is to run a BlueOnyx server dirt-cheap, there are much
> easier options.  I can even offer some of those commercially.
>
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