Strongbolt is an operating system installation application based on the Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 Operating System

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

 written by James McLoughlin.
The Strongbolt Operating System is specifically for Cobalt RaQ

Cobalt RaQ

The Cobalt RaQ is a 1U rackmount server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management...

 Appliance Servers.
Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

 discontinued the popular Cobalt server appliances in 2004.
Strongbolt was created in order to provide a new, actively developed operating system for these Server appliances.
Strongbolt OS is a CentOS

CentOS

CentOS is a free operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution...

 and BlueQuartz Operating System

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

 installer for Cobalt RaQ

Cobalt RaQ

The Cobalt RaQ is a 1U rackmount server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management...

 and Cobalt Qube

Cobalt Qube

The Cobalt Qube was a computer server appliance product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management. The original Qube systems were equipped with RM5230 or RM5231 microprocessors but later models used AMD...

 servers.
The system installs similarly to the original Cobalt RaQ install disk. The new StrongBolt 2 release can also be installed from an USB key directly in the USB port. Strongbolt has been out-of-active development for several months.

Internals

CentOS 4.4 with an older 2.6 Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 Kernel and the BlueQuartz administration panel.

Installs CentOS + Bluequartz on Cobalt RaQ3's, RaQ4's, RaQ550 and Qube3.

See also

• Operating System
  Operating system
  An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
  
  
• Server
  Server (computing)
  In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
  
  
• Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
  
• Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  
• Cobalt Qube
  Cobalt Qube
  The Cobalt Qube was a computer server appliance product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management. The original Qube systems were equipped with RM5230 or RM5231 microprocessors but later models used AMD...
  
  
• Cobalt RaQ
  Cobalt RaQ
  The Cobalt RaQ is a 1U rackmount server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management...
  
  
• CentOS
  CentOS
  CentOS is a free operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution...
  
  
• BlueQuartz
• Kernel (computer science)

External links

• Cobalt Kernel Patches Created by Jeff Waters
• Strongbolt: CentOS 4 and BlueQuartz install disk for Cobalt server appliances
• Sun Microsystems server appliances: End of life products
• BlueQuartz, a project started with the source code for Qube and RaQ that Sun released under the BSD license after EOL of the Cobalt appliances