[BlueOnyx:17148] Re: How can I configure the blueonyx Qube3 features ?

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Heather,

> How can I configure and setup the blueonyx Qube3  features, such as  
> intranet, for example DHCP/NAT/Firewall/VPN/File+Printer sharing/etc.
> 
> I am refering myself to the bluequartz documentation here
> http://bluequartz.org/docs/faqs-e.html

That is actually a functionality which BlueOnyx doesn't support. We
never did.

The Sausalito GUI goes back to products that were initially made by
Cobalt Networks, Inc. They sold webservers with GUI (RaQ line of
servers) and intranet servers under the "Qube" product label.

The GUI was somewhat the same, but the functionality differed. The
RaQ500 allowed to host multiple sites, whereas the Qube 3 only supported
one site, but had a more layered user setup and workgroup functionality
suitable for small offices.

The last RaQ was the RaQ550 and the last Qube was the Qube 3.

Long story short: They were bought by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and then a
bit later Sun laid off that entire line of products. Which was a nice
way to let a 3 billion USD investment to to waste. :o)

But they were nice enough to release the Qube 3 and the RaQ550 software
as open source back in 2003.

Hisao Shibuya from BlueQuartz.org took on the development based on the
RaQ550 sources and created BlueQuartz. The most common version was the
one that did run on CentOS 4.

For some time there was also a development process going on at
BlueQuartz.org for the Qube 3 line, but eventually fell dormant and was
discontinued. I think it only really took a hold in Japan, as the people
elsewhere were rather more interested in the RaQ550 successor.

BlueOnyx is a fork of BlueQuartz and it continued the development of the
old RaQ550 code to what it is today.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber