[UFO Chicago] Re: Solaris 10?

[Nate Riffe]

Larry Garfield said this (probably recently):
> Nate Riffe wrote:
> 
> >>Cobalt is a decent example.  Talk about a great idea:  have a small,
> >>headless linux box that does VPN, mail, web, print serving, file serving
> >>ala Samba and just about anything else.  Your tiny office could use it and
> >>support it themselves for the most part.
> >>
> >>Sun bought it and then totally screwed it up.  It is no more.
> >>
> >>Any decent linux distros that do this?  I remember finding one a few years
> >>ago, but it was bought by a telecom company and deprecated until it died.
> >
> >Let's make one.  I'm only half-kidding.
> 
> Complete with hardware, or just a software distribution?  I'm be 
> surprised if someone hadn't already made the latter.

Sure let's do hardware, I could probably prototype a mini-ITX based
black box system for under $1000.

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