[BlueOnyx:27342] Re: Celebrating 25 Years Since Cobalt Networks' IPO

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Rickard,

> Do you know what  David S. Miller is doing right now?

No idea, sorry.
> What a difference in using the archaic Solaris 1.1 
> (SunOS 4.1.3) and a nice modern RH Linux port on the same hardware.

Hell, yeah. I recall the really hostile look I got my first day in the 
Sun office. The assistant department manager was introducing me to the 
Sun Blade stations that every workplace in the office had. You know 
them, but for those that don't? These were essentially thin client PCs 
that had just a barebone PC in it and a monitor and keyboard plugged in. 
You inserted your Sun company badge into any of those (regardless if you 
were in an US office, UK, Germany or wherever else) and it automatically 
logged you into your personal desktop environment. With all your data at 
your fingertips. That was back in 2001/2002.

After clicking a bit around the assistant manager asked me if I needed 
any help with that desktop and I said: "I feel right at home. Although 
this has the charm of a 10 year old Linux." I realized immediately: "I 
should not have said that!", but TBH: The Solaris desktop had the charm 
and nostalgia of an antiquity store even then.

He didn't believe me until I pulled out my Laptop and showed him the 
SuSE Linux install with KDE that I had on there. And that wasn't even 
tweaked (much) yet.

> I won't forget to mention our own Taco (who worked in Holland with 
> George and Carley) and all the other Cobalters like Gordon Garb 
 > (Fun Apple stories) and Nicholas White (Many happy beers!)

Indeed!

> I created a Door-access Appliance (which could be run in HA) which I 
> sold a few of. This version was based on Aventurine and
> the payback to Michael was the first Qemu implementation and as faster 
> more secure way of uploading ISOs.

Oh yes, I remember that. Good times!

> Michael, did you ever get the HA-code?

Yeah, the HA code made it into Aventurin{e} 6106R/6108R for the Cluster 
version of it. Although the DRBD Cluster never really lost its quirks 
and oddities. That's why 6109R no longer had it. Wasn't worth the hassles.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber