> The Cobalt Raq appliance is for all of us that want an appliance. If you do > not need an appliance, by all means upgrade all you want. Precisely! I work for a small company. We decided that we wanted to move into a dedicated server so that we had more control over things. This was back when the Raq2 first came out. I was a Graphic Designer by trade and had no *nix experience so the Raq was a great choice for us (webserver with training wheels).
> For the rest of us, Cobalt is keeping a restricted system to try and keep us > safe and secure. I know, the box is not safe and secure without adding other > things and turning off a few others. But, the operating system as shipped, > used to be Red Hat 6.2, but Cobalt removed some things and modified others. I realize that they can't come out with every new bell and whistle out there. After time, I needed more functionality than the Raq2's came with (eg. PHP, MySQL). > With doing this, it is much more complicated upgrading the modules than fixing > them. If it is not acceptable to you, do it yourself or buy another product. I could be wrong, but your tone seems to imply that I was complaining about Cobalts and their lack of upgrades. I was only providing my experience for the benefit of others on the list. This is a developers list isn't it? But don't you think it's odd that I've been able to upgrade Apache on my Raq2's for the past two years and Sun/Cobalt can't do it at least once? Unfortunately, like William say's in his follow up I find myself growing out of my old beloved Raq2's. <quote> But in general as my admin skills improve I find myself starting to drift away from the Cobalts. Mostly because of the difficulty of maintaining or upgrading software, that Cobalt developers have not had the time do address. </quote> Regards, Jay _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
