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I've just managed to acquire a Cobalt Qube3 (the one with an AMD processor, not the MIPS one) with 512Mb RAM and a 10Gb hard drive.

Apart from the lack of an optical drive in the box, can anyone see any reason why 7.x won't run on this ?

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0 frufru over 18 years ago

the 450mhz k6-2 is the weakest link. i don't think it's sufficient to run asl
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0 moldor over 18 years ago in reply to frufru

the 450mhz k6-2 is the weakest link. i don't think it's sufficient to run asl

Hmmmm... This is kinda what I thought... I'm investigating whether I can upgrade the processor to something more substantial, but t the moment it's running CobaltOS which is based on OpenBSD I believe... A tad slow but it does the job.

Jon
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0 moldor over 18 years ago in reply to frufru

the 450mhz k6-2 is the weakest link. i don't think it's sufficient to run asl

Hmmmm... This is kinda what I thought... I'm investigating whether I can upgrade the processor to something more substantial, but t the moment it's running CobaltOS which is based on OpenBSD I believe... A tad slow but it does the job.

Jon
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0 frufru over 18 years ago in reply to moldor

i think k6-2 500mhz or 550mhz is the fastest cpu you could use and it won't be enough powerful. k6-2 is a pentium II class cpu and if i remember well a 800mhz pIII is the official minimal requirement.
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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to frufru

Not enough processor, and if you intend to use this in a commercial setting (more than about 10 users or so with all features enabled), you'll need more memory... at least 768MB or 1GB.

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0 moldor over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

Not enough processor, and if you intend to use this in a commercial setting (more than about 10 users or so with all features enabled), you'll need more memory... at least 768MB or 1GB.

No, this is purely for a home situation - plus it is a very cool looking piece of hardware...:-)

I might give it a try with 6.x and see if that works..
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0 frufru over 18 years ago in reply to moldor

maybe you should try the free version of smoothwall. it's not as professional as astaro but i had the 2.0 version on a 300mhz celeron rig running with no problems.
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0 moldor over 18 years ago in reply to frufru

That's certainly an option I guess, or I might just put Debian on it and write my own...

I only wanted to use this box as it's small and (relatively quiet) as it sits on top of the fridge in the kitchen. Unless I can find a quieter box....
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0 BarryG over 18 years ago in reply to moldor

You can setup a quiet Jetway (VIA CPU) system for several hundred:
http://astaro.org/showthread.php?t=17090&page=5

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