Wow, lots of big news for current and former Cobalt Raq/Cube owners out there:
* Brian at Nuonce Networks (www.nuonce.com) has closed his site (he had for six years provided package and support for original Raq systems and more recently an excellent whitebox installer for CentOs+BlueQuartz);
* BlueOnyx (www.blueonyx.it) has opened up, with a moderns spin on CentOS5 + an updated GUI, complete with PHP 5 and lots of moderns add-ons and updates. I haven't installed this yet, but suspect it's for whitebox servers, not retro to RaQs. The feature list looks very impressive, and its all freeware;
* Not to be outdone, Jimbob at OsOffice (www.osoffice.co.uk) has releaseed a new StrongBolt, which is their own spin on CentOS+BQ, with an updated PHP, support for SATA drives (no more 128Gb limit!), a new ROM update, and a cool USB-stick installer (beating the old method by a mile) and lots of updates. His costs GBP 35, but that seems reasonable to me for the amount of work that has gone into it.
So, there's life in the old system yet! It's also a reason -- in my opinion -- that if you run an old Raq3, 4, or 550 system on a public network, your admin life will be simpler by upgrading.

Thanks for letting me know!
We have a few old 550's lying around, maybe I will put them into use as backup servers :)

Heh, with the StrongBolt2 update, now it supports webcams and soundcards. Now I can finally mount some tracks on my RaQ4i, some robotic arms, strap a UPS to it, and hook up a webcam, and a wireless network USB adapter, and I will have a robot to take my place in the office.

BlueOnyx looks promising. I will have to keep my eye on that one.

Great, I've ebayed a couple and havent really used them, now i will :)
Thanks for the update

gnetwerker, you forgot to mention Zeffie, he's still supporting the RAQ4 OS, I'm pleased with my investment in buying his updates.

<snip>It's also a reason -- in my opinion -- that if you run an old Raq3, 4, or 550 system on a public network, your admin life will be simpler by upgrading.

upgrading what? the hardware or the software?