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Move Over Mini-ITX, Here Comes The gigaQube

Posted by timothy on from the product-before-its-time dept.

Jim Ethanol writes "Since there's been a lot of interest lately in Mini ITX based servers I thought the Slashdot crowd might enjoy checking out Project gigaQube. The gigaQube is a modified Cobalt Qube 2 server appliance with 240 Gigabytes of storage running NetBSD's Mips R5000 based Cobalt port. Cobalt Qube's are quiet, cool looking little (7.25 x 7.25 x 7.75 inch) servers that when modified, make a powerful home server solution. They also seem to have achieved 'fetish' status in Japan. See some gigaQube action shots here, or check its vitals here."

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  1. Re:Doesn't gcc suck on the mips? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 1, Troll

    GCC sucks on everything. Really. It performs poorly compared to Intel's compilers, Digital's compilers, IBM compilers, etc. I think it might have done better than SUN compilers though, but I heard that's not saying much. GCC's only strong points are GPL licensing and possibly the broadest hardware support, and stable output I guess, it was everything but fast.

    DEC just happened to release a special compiler for Linux, GEM, I think. End users could get it, I have a downloaded beta of it too. The back end is the same as on Tru64's, only the Linux front end was considered beta.

    The Linux engineers in DEC where having a hard time convincing the GCC group to improve the front-end to back-end communication because they could optimize better, but they refused. Remember, the GCC group was the bunch of miscreants that effectively required the EGCS split to get anything done even for just Pentium optimizations!