With this NetBSD Restore CD I managed to shoe-horn NetBSD 2 onto my MIPS based Cobalt Qube 2.

Details on the NetBSD Cobalt port are here.

Now I just need to dig up a serial cable or setup a dhcp server so I can assign the thing an IP address and start messing around with it.

Its certainly quite a leap from the standard Qube 4Gb disk containing the old Cobalt Redhat-based Linux Kernel v2 (current in 1999 maybe) to the 40Gb disk containing NetBSD 2 (which is current as of 2004/5). Cobalt stopped updating their MIP's based OS when they moved their line of Qube and RAQ hardware to x86 which was much easier to keep in synch with advances in the Linux kernel.

For now it will probably go back into its box and storage until we get our study sorted out.

Looks like a great Gmail type AJAX application - Zimbra. Open source too. The demo and flash-demo look very promising. One thing I did notice was it was http and not https which was a little disconcerting.

Another What is Asterisk article. Nice introduction to this open source VOIP PABX solution.

Found via Tinyapps is a Review over at Newsforge of DemoStudio. DemoStudio is an open source screen movie capture tool useful in creating AVI or Shockwave recordings of screen activities.

The Evolution of the Word GUI from v1 to v97. Back in the day when Word actually had competition from WordPerfect (although I remember Xywrite, AppleWriter and Wordstar too).

I made my first Wikipedia contribution by fixing a typo in this article on Richard Dawkins. Its so simple to change stuff its almost frigtening.

I've never used Ubuntu but judging by this FAQ from one of its prime movers (Mark Shuttleworth) it seems like a well-grounded and fun distro to use.