“The Sun Cobalt was open-sourced by Sun Microsystems at the end of its product lifecycle in December of 2003. OffMyServer, a provider of custom built servers and storage solutions, sponsored the porting of the Cobalt RaQ software to the FreeBSD operating system. The open source project, codenamed RAQdevil, is focused on providing an interactive community to encourage developers that are interested in working to improve the software.”
Ah, the days of managing a rack of Cobalts…. Not something I want to relive…. :p
I have a few Cobalt RaQ4r with me and I love ’em.
The Cobalt OS is great, porting it over to FreeBSD is an awesome idea.
because I can build my own server with RaQDevil in it, do my own hosting.
Great job RaQ-Devil.
and thank you OSNews for bringing us this good news.
to break the Linux monopoly sure sounds good to me.
First Dtrace, now RAQdevil…..can’t wait for REAL Java on FreeBSD.
Well, it’s sort of ironic that I’m actually the one involved with both projects, but it’s true. By the way, “real” java does exist on FreeBSD — there’s ongoing work to get 1.5 working flawlessly, but I’ve never had a problem with 1.4 — /usr/ports/java/jdk14 works great for me.
Thanks for the kind words! I hope that people enjoy the software, and I certainly hope we can get a community set up (and that the community will help with development — there are definitely features that are lacking that have become somewhat standard in the last couple of years since Cobalt was EOLed).
–Devon
–Devon
For sure this is a great move to FreeBSD base hosting company. with RAQdevil i think the hosting bussines will get more easy to do.
As a user of FreeBSD, I would like to express my appreciation to you and all the other developers for:
Java, FreeBSD, Ports and everthing else.
Thanks!!!
PS: I believe that this is Devon O’Dell.
Why are these open source project names so … bad ?
had a chance to use Cobalt Qube (does it the correct name?) for a year and a half or something like that, impressed. i think the Cobalt interface is very straight forward and powerful, though not so full featured … thinking about what if Cobalt interface could intregrated with a thing like CPanel …. that will be a really web hosting platform heaven.
Yep, it’s me
–Devon
Please, please, do something similar to our old and useless snap-servers. I do not want to upgrade for yet another useless software-gpl-crippled-os.