New Media News: Top Stories--Cobalt | Linux Today

New Media News: Top Stories–Cobalt

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 20, 1998

Another Silicon Valley startup company full of smart people —
doesn’t sound that remarkable, right? But the people at Cobalt
Networks are thinking way outside the box with their Qube
computer.

… what really sets it apart is something you can’t see: its
Linux operating system.

Linux has been written to use very little system memory. Today,
you can run it on less than 8 megabytes of memory. For the
engineers at Cobalt, that means lower hardware costs and more
reliability.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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