Re: tlug: Another commercial Linux machine

[Felix Morley Finch <felix@example.com>]

>>In article <Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.980603132305.976S-100000@example.com>, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com> writes:

> At our sort-of weekly engineering division meeting today, Linux actually
> cropped up.  We'd gotten some pamphlets advertising a Linux-based server
> called the Cobalt Qube.  It's a 20 cm cube (2.8 Kg) that comes with Linux
> (I don't know what distribution, or if they make their own).  Standard
> memory is 16, with a 2 GB hard disk (Ultra-ATA) and 10 base-T Ethernet.
> It says it has a 150 MHz RISC CPU, but doesn't say what kind.  Storage is
> expandable to 6 GB, and it can go to 64 meg of memory.

Check the http://slashdot.org archives for more news on it.  I think
it's an SGI (MIPS ?) CPU.  As I understand it, its main claim to fame
is ease of use: one LCD display, one power LED, one power cord, and
one Ethernet connection.  Configured over an internal web site or via
the LCD display.

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