On 29-Nov-98 Jim Pick wrote: > > Gerhard Poul <gp@atnet.at> writes: > > > Is there someone who uses a Cobalt Qube out there??? > > > > I asked on #debian and they told me that there was a message on > > debian-devel > > about it. But I'm not able to find it in the Mailing list archives. > > > > Please let me tell why I'm interested in these Cobalt Qubes... > > > > I really like the hardware they have. But I really dislike these > > Web-Interfaces and all these special things. > > > > That's why I'm looking for a way to install debian on it. With ssh and all > > these things... > > I've heard nice things about their hardware. The Cobalt RaQ looks > sort of interesting. Plus Dave Miller works there. :-) > > There has been some interest in a MIPS port, and there is a mailing > list - see: > > http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ > > >From what I understand, the Cobalt hardware comes with a Red Hat based > distribution. I think that it is different from the MIPS you'd find > on an SGI machine, as it is little endian. (Correct me if I'm wrong) IIRC, the MIPS processor is rather unique in that it can operate with either big-endian or little-endian byte order. Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mickan | NetSpot Pty Ltd Email: mmickan@iweb.net.au | 183 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide ICQ: 9274293 | http://www.netspot.com.au/
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