At 01:41 PM 7/11/2002, you wrote: >Matt Darnell wrote: > >>Nothing is perfect, but the RaQs are the best tool I have found easy web and >>email serving. > >Yep. That was exactly my way of thinking as I bought the RaQ. But my >capabalities have advanced. The GUI is fine for the 'lazy' admin, but as >Cobalt is now part of SUN I notice a delay in responsiveness. The fact >that it took that long to fix apache is only one indicator. > >ALso the abscence of Cobalt people here and the fact that many >announcements are now on the SUN web-based forums and not here anymore >have caused me to rethink my possibilities. > >I am no longer frightened of shell commands so I evaluated OpenBSD and was >impressed. If I find a way to get it running on the RaQ I will do it. I >will still have the good looking blue machine in my cabinet but I will >feel more comfortable ;-) > >I always installed the patches as soon as they were available. But the >fact that there is still no official way of getting PHP 4.2.1 or even PHP >4.1.x from Cobalt is surely driving customers away from using webspace on >RaQs. A big thankyou though to Taco Scargo and his friends that continue >to help out by offering packages on pkgmaster.com.
Just for those that don't know it, Taco is a Sun employee. He makes packages for Cobalt systems though they are not officially supported by Sun. But, they are packages that a number of people have asked for and he makes them into packages in a manner that they will run on the Cobalt products without further modification. >If SUN wants to keep me from thinking of moving away they should take our >concerns more serious. But that is just the opinion of a litle man that >tries to keep his services up and running. > >Jan Wildeboer > >_______________________________________________ >cobalt-developers mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers > _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
