[SunRescue] what is a Netra?

[BillBradfordmrbill at mrbill.net]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:06:53PM +0100, David Murphy wrote:
> Quoting <001901c0328e$44e24c00$04191fac at cidera.com>
> by Mike Nicewonger <twmaster at twmaster.com>:
> > Netra was kinda a cool idea, the first internet appliance if you
> > will. Web Server, DNS, firewall, web based management,
> It was *eeevil*, front runner for the worst thing ever to have a sun
> badge attached to it, or so people who used to support it have told me.

We had a customer @ ionet once that bought a Netra, one of the SS5-based
ones; we immediately wiped it, put on "normal" Solaris 2.5.1, Apache, and
taught him how to use VI and setup his own virtual hosting, etc.  He was
much happier.

Bill

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