Re: [cobalt-security] Re: Cobalt Lists vs. Cobalt Support

[Anders <andersb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Thurman wrote:

> No, I didn't miss it, somehow Sun did. That doesn't look to me like there is
> any Raq3-4 source code which is different then the Qube3-550 code which
> those 3 OS's are similar. Many of us are using Raq3-4 OS and having a way to
> bring these current would be great.

Right.

The Open Source was "only" for the Qube 3 and RaQ 550.
I don't think anyone volunteered to clean the previous
old software releases like RaQ 3, RaQ 4 or RaQ XTR up...

And the Control Station is still selling, although
in a newer version than the old hardware appliance.
So that wasn't part of the open source code either.

> I think if someone out there took the plunge, maybe the open sourced code
> could be continued on for the blue boxes, and not the white box market.

Maybe it needs a Blue Quartz Legacy project, just like Fedora has ?

Then again, Sun holds all trademarks and has also outsourced the
development of security packages for *another* three years more...
At least for the RaQ 4 and 5 (XTR), the RaQ 3 is dead (EOSL).

> Blue Panel is working on a much better GUI, maybe somehow that could be
> integrated with an OS update based on ALL Cobalt code, not just the
> Sausalito code.

BluePanel and Qbalt are promising, but also rather different ?

The best solution for the old hardware is probably to upgrade
the ROM to make it a whitebox, and then run another Linux OS ?
Like http://www.fallenknight.org/staticpages/index.php/rh9raq3

And for the MIPS boxes, there is always NetBSD for Cobalt...

--anders