Ah man, I always wanted a Cobalt RaQ server - they looked so cool!
I seem to remember people reselling access to them and they had web guis that looked like them as well, I think a friend had one
The Cobalt RaQ was one in a series of Cobalt 'server appliances'. These appliances were and remain unique largely because of their design, including (1) Industrial design incorporating round moulded transparent blue plastic elements and an LCD/button basic network config and status system. (2) Hardware design which initially (for RaQ v1 + RaQ v2 + Qube v1 + Qube v2) was based upon MIPS processors, a rarity in commercial Linux products. This server is unfortunately a RaQ v3, so AMD K6 (intel) based rather than MIPS. (3) Software design, which incorporated a complex (IIRC perl v5 based) software module upload function which allowed for commercial sale of new software packages easily installed on the devices with web configuration.
One of my first jobs circa 2000 was writing a VPN module for the Cobalt devices in perl v5 which was sold by an Australian company. I gave away my hardware years ago.
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Ah man, I always wanted a Cobalt RaQ server - they looked so cool! I seem to remember people reselling access to them and they had web guis that looked like them as well, I think a friend had one
So many comments and none about RaQ, really.
The Cobalt RaQ was one in a series of Cobalt 'server appliances'. These appliances were and remain unique largely because of their design, including (1) Industrial design incorporating round moulded transparent blue plastic elements and an LCD/button basic network config and status system. (2) Hardware design which initially (for RaQ v1 + RaQ v2 + Qube v1 + Qube v2) was based upon MIPS processors, a rarity in commercial Linux products. This server is unfortunately a RaQ v3, so AMD K6 (intel) based rather than MIPS. (3) Software design, which incorporated a complex (IIRC perl v5 based) software module upload function which allowed for commercial sale of new software packages easily installed on the devices with web configuration.
One of my first jobs circa 2000 was writing a VPN module for the Cobalt devices in perl v5 which was sold by an Australian company. I gave away my hardware years ago.