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Sun Opens Cobalt Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the users-not-blue-any-more dept.

Bush Kanaka writes "It looks like Sun has released the user interface and back-end custom code for the Cobalt Raq550 under a BSD-like licence. The BIOS code is also, apparently, now open source and is being maintained by Sun engineer Duncan Laurie in his own time. This has to be good news for all those Cobalt devotees who were annoyed when Sun killed off Cobalt last month, but is anybody going to actually pick up the software and start making their own Cobalt clones?"

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  1. Re:Cobalt Cube? by oldmanmtn · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is it just me, or does this thing sound exactly like the Cobalt Cube from a few years back

    It _is_ the Cobalt Qube software. Jesus, I know nobody reads the articles, but is it really too much to ask that you read the title of the message you are responding to?

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