Gateway to Sell Cobalt Systems

Manuka writes "According to news.com, computer maker Gateway will be selling Cobalt systems, such as the RaQ and Qube. Neat, but will it come in the trademark Cobalt blue, or will it have blue cow spots? " Cobalt, Amiga - GW seems to be all over the place.

Comments

great!

[Suydam]

This is great news for everyone!

Cobalt makes Linux hardware (more or less) and it's great to see them get what ammounts to a large distribution deal.

Gateway is nothing more than a distributor of hardware anyway. The don't actually MAKE anything, so this deal gives them an entry into the LInux market.

The question I have is: Who will do the support? Coablt? or Gateway? Because if it's Cobalt, I think you have people that will incorrectly assume that Gateway has contracted their support to a 3rd party. If it's Gateway, I'd worry that they won't know HOW to support Linux systems.

Other than that, this seems like a great setup though.

Qube Owner Speaks

[Wah]

I've got two qubes, e-mail/web/file servers. They have been very nice and rather easy. The main one has been up for over two months with nary a whisper, set 'em up and forget about it, my kind of servers. I haven't done anything t0o strenuous (no SQL install), but as a basic web server, say for a small company like mine, they work great. I also have it doing NAT, DHCP, filtering, mostly configured through the browser-GUI. Coming with two NICS installed makes it that much easier. I must say I have been impressed, plus they're so dang cute, especially when you turn the lights out. Mmmm, glowing green lights...

From a proud Cobalt owner...

[joeboo]

We have 4 Cobalt CacheRaqs and a Cobalt WebRaq. These things are great. 3 of our cache raqs and out web raq have been up for over 190 days without a problem. The only reason that we had to reboot them was to throw a custom kernel from Cobalt on them for gated and assorteds.

Great support from Cobalt...

Web Cache - Squid + Friends

[Christopher B. Brown]

The first thing for you to look at, run, don't walk, is Squid.

Squid is a full-featured, free cacheing web proxy that is most certainly what you want to look at. It is available in RPM and DEB pre-packaged form.

You might also want to look into filtering web proxies that might be what users set up to "hit," to do things like filtering out cookies and/or annoying banner ads. (Not the Slashdot ones, of course!). The "standard" one to mention is Junkbuster but there are other possibly more sophisticated ones as listed at HTTP Links.

I'd hazard the guess that you'd be able to get most of the web cacheing benefits from a 386 box with 8MB of RAM and 500MB of disk; moving up to 14.4GB isn't likely to increase performance vastly over that...