It may not be completely dead, but "the writing is on the wall".
BQ is based on CentOS 4 and that is getting older and older, eventually it will
not be supported by the CentOS "company"
BQ is based on PHP4 that has been discontinued.
I have seen more progress with BlueOnyx in one month then I have seen in a year
with BlueQuartz.
On the other hand BlueOnyx is Based on CentOS 5.2, has PHP5, MySQL 5,
Squirrelmail, Nuonce Subdomains, and much more.
These are just my opinions, I still use BlueQuartz, I hope it does not
completely stagnate and die. But BlueOnyx is more or less better in almost
every category, the only issue is the incompatibilities with existing software
packages (Nuonce & others)
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:43:35 -0600, Jimmy Gross wrote
> I have not seen anything concrete that says Blue Quartz is dead. Yes, Brian
> shut down Nuonce. Michael and some others have started Blue Onyx.
>
> I have not seen anything from Hisao saying he is not going to work on
> the BQ project.
>
> Michael at Solar Speed is still selling BQ servers and software.
>
> I think you may be jumping the gun a little bit assuming Blue Quartz is
> dead.
>
> I just did a yum update and and two updates appeared in my queue so it
> would seem that BQ is not quite dead yet.
>
> jimmy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dogsbody [mailto:dan (at mark) dogsbody.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:18 AM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:15019] Re: Rant about BlueQuartz
>
> > I'm not advocating that all BQ users jump ship to BX this instant. I
> > think I'm more saying I'm not sure I would recommend another BQ
> > installation if you were putting up a new box.
>
> Chris, I don't think anyone is arguing with you regarding a new box and
> I realise that moving from CentOS4 to CentOS5 requires a fresh install.
> The difference is that CentOS4 is still supported while BlueQuartz isn't!
>
> It would be nice to move from one supported product to another
> supported product instead of what has happened now where all updates
> have stopped for BQ forcing us to move to BX immediately. BlueQuartz
> has basically done a Cobalt!!
>
> I am currently turning customers away because I don't have the time to
> setup new BQ servers and I certainly don't have time to buy new servers
> and migrate everyone to BX immediately.
>
> My point in particular was that ALL of this was avoidable!!! It should
> have been BlueQuartz that ventured into Centos5, instead they killed it!
>
> > Thank GOODNESS that those involved didn't just give up and walk away.
>
> IMHO I think most of them did! Not knocking anyone that is still here,
> as has been said many many times, you are all amazing and I truly
> believe that. We have still lost one hell of a lot of talent though
> from helpers on the mailing list to developers to people that could
> have just helped raise bugs..... GONE
>
> Dan
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