Cobalt Qube for sale cheap

[Victor Odhner]

OK, some clarification.  This seems to be a Qube 2, using a MIPS RISC CPU.
There seems to be some Debian support for it.

My price is now down to $65 because I know I don't have enough
hacking time available to play with this.

Vic

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Cobalt Qube for sale cheap
Date: 	Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:13:13 -0700
From: 	Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net>
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My recent battles with Samba have reminded me how much
time is needed to conquer a new technical frontier.
I can hack, but life keeps getting in the way and I need
more sleep than I used to --  man, that really cuts into
the hacking thing! -- so I am simplifying.

Charlie Bullen gave me a good deal on a tiny, quiet box
that can serve as a web server, firewall, etc.  It is loaded
with something like RH6 and special Cobalt provisions
so that it boots up (slowly) in a pretty secure condition.

It has no display except a little LCD.  It has a primary
ethernet facing the Net, and a secondary facing inside,
plus a serial port you can hook up to.  SSH is not
currently installed.

OK, so I will never get around to using this thing.

I would want to upgrade all the software for security
purposes -- it's out there, apparently, although this is a
non-Intel box so there is a limited set of binaries available.
It could accommodate a compiler, but again it's a tad slow.
Someone who is comfortable with cross-compilation would
probably have more fun with this.

Charlie told me it was worth something like $2000 a few
years ago.  Now it's not . . .  So I will try to recoup most
of my investment by asking $80.  That will go down over
time until someone can't resist this toy.

Below are some miscellaneous links I've collected.

Take care,

Vic

Basic info:
 
<http://cobalt-aid2.lindist.dk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=76>

Debian:
 <http://www.cobaltfaqs.com/index.php?title=Debian_on_Qube_2>

NetBSD:
 <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/cobalt/>

Misc:
 <http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2004/07/15/0001.html>
 <http://pkgmaster.com/packages/qube/2/>
 <http://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/>
<http://cobalt-aid2.lindist.dk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=76>
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