[BlueOnyx:24616] Re: End of life of Centos 8?

[Ernie]

I have a couple RaQ2 as well.

I was thinking about pulling the motherboard out, and replacing it with a
Raspberry Pi with BX installed. Have to figure out haw to wire the front
panel controls to the GPIO on the Pi


- Ernie.



> I still have my Cobalt (pre-sun) raq3, working.  That hosted my website and
> several others back in 2000.  I eventually purchased the thing from the
> original owner after he gave up hosting.  I have Strongbolt installed on
> it, but not the latest version, which AFAIK is basically unobtanium.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:45 AM Ernie <ernie at info.eis.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Quite right,
> > I have my Suns and Oracles mixed up.
> >
> > I still have a working RaQ 550 lying around somewhere, time flies in IT
> >
> >
> > - Ernie.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi Ernie,
> > >
> > > > Funny thing, is, Oracle were the ones that released the Cobalt source
> > > > code into the public domain, when they bought out Sun, and decided to
> > > > abandon the Cobalt products. Without Oracle we wouldn't have BlueOnyx.
> > >
> > > Sorry, but that isn't correct:
> > >
> > > On December 23, 2003, Sun released the RAQ550/Sausalito Source code
> > > under the BSD license.
> > >
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_RaQ
> > >
> > > Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010:
> > >
> > > https://www.oracle.com/sun/
> > >
> > > Oracle is sort of a reverse Midas. Whatever they touch turns to shit. :p
> > >
> > > See:
> > >
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2e2c1o/what_do_we_hate_oracle_for/
> > >
> > > --
> > > With best regards
> > >
> > > Michael Stauber
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