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Re: Cobalt Qube - anyone seen/used one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Oct 28 11:17:11 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:12:07 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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KThorpe wrote:
>
> I've been looking at a Cobalt Qube as a small-time network server.
>
> For those who haven't seen it it's a 7inch cobalt coloured cube which
> contains a MIPS Linux system based on RedHat. It is preconfigured with
> Apache, DNS, Samba, AppleTalk, (DHCP I think), POP3 and SMTP. Its only
> interface is a network port and all admin is performed via a web browser.
> The price is œ795 to œ995 depending on spec.
>
> Has anyone any real comments to make on this box other than the sales lit? I
> think it would be ideal for a client of ours (possibly more than one if I
> can persuade them it's a zillion times cooler than NT).
I just got one here, took it out of the box last night and will
be setup soon. It appears to run RedHat Linux for the MIPS RISC
processor. However, mine is not the Cobalt Cube, but the Cobalt
RaQ, which is the same thing but in a rack mounted version. It
is only 1.75 inches tall on the rack. Kinda neat. It has power,
ethernet and a serial port. In the Rack version, the power supply
is built in rather than external as in the Cube. My first
impression is quite favorable, but I have not hooked it up yet.
I am still reading the manuals.
In the Rack version, it is the same size as a Cisco 2501. :-) Of
course, you can take the mounting ears off and use it as a
desktop,
and they supply rubber feet for that.
Will report to the list in a few days when I am more along with
it.
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