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 Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list To: PLUG 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: Debian: NetBSD: Misc: ----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss