On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Ken Singman wrote:
%As my first installation of Linux, all I was able to find in my area (at
%CompUSA) was a Caldera OpenLinux Base package. No Red Hat, etc. . Before I
%open this up and install, I'd like to get some opinions on Caldera. This
%version seems very user friendly; maybe too user friendly, unless I'm wrong.
%>From the pictures on the box, you'd think you're buying a version of Windows
%or something. It doesn't "look" like the versions of Linux I'd seen a couple
%years ago....
The installation compares favorably to RedHat's, and it has a good,
solid feature set. My experience with OpenLinux has also been that,
while it is not completely free of oopses, it has considerably fewer
than RedHat. I don't particularly care for the Looking Glass desktop,
but I like it better than the Win95-alike that RedHat defaults to.
OpenLinux is also slower to adopt the latest-and-greatest rage in
features (such as glibc), but that speaks more to their target market,
the business environment, than to any technical shortcoming. All in
all (and I confess I'm biased since I use OpenLinux), I much prefer
OpenLinux to RedHat. The technical support is a hell of lot better.
Kurt
