[geeks] What to do with my Qube 3?

[Mike Hebel]

On Sep 15, 2008, at 6:58 PM 9/15/08, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> On Sep 15, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Mike Hebel wrote:
>
>> Ask and ye shall receive:
>>
>> http://www.cobaltfaqs.com/index.php/ 
>> Main_Page#Alternate_operating_systems_on_Cobalt_hardware
>>
>> I kind of like the fact there's a link to Ubuntu for the Qube3.
>>
>> Mind you I haven't tried any of these but if you have a spare  
>> Qube3 you want to send me to play with I'll be happy to accept  
>> it. ;-D
>
> Awesome! Thank you. I think the "+BSD" was breaking my GOOG search :D

 From what I gather that's because the boot rom only accepts certain  
types of binaries to boot.  The link to Ubuntu on Qube 3 mentions a  
rom file and a rom updater so if someone had the will they could very  
likely re-write from scratch to boot NetBSD or maybe even OpenBSD on  
the machine.
--
Mike Hebel


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