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Sun opens Cobalt RaQ550 code

  • 02-01-2004 8:06pm
    #1
    dahamsta
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    Since no-one is capable of moderating WH, I guess this'll have to go here...
    Sun Opens Cobalt Code
    Posted by michael on Friday January 02, @09:51AM
    from the users-not-blue-any-more dept.

    Bush Kanaka writes "It looks like Sun has released the user interface and back-end custom code for the Cobalt Raq550 under a BSD-like licence. The BIOS code is also, apparently, now open source and is being maintained by Sun engineer Duncan Laurie in his own time. This has to be good news for all those Cobalt devotees who were annoyed when Sun killed off Cobalt last month, but is anybody going to actually pick up the software and start making their own Cobalt clones?"


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  • #2
    mneylon
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    It's good to see that SUN have finally made a definitive decision about the code. There was a lot of discussion on the Cobalt lists about the various Cobalt OS/GUI code and what would happen now that SUN are withdrawing what little support they were providing.
    There are a few 'rumblings' of companies developing replacement appliances, but many feel that the days of the appliance server are passed. It's an interesting debate. Having had experience with most models of RAQ over the last couple of years I'm in two minds about them. If Sun had provided a reasonable level of support with regards to patches etc., they might have had a future.

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