In addition to everything Lee said ... - The menu's are organized logically and with prose names like "CD Player" or somesuch rather than the consonant-laden gibberish that passes for menus on most distros.
- Most all the options that a user might want to configure are in one GUI config tool and in logical places with sensible names. - They focus their energy on perfecting one GUI instead of 2 or 10. - It turns to advantage inter-operability on a Windows network rather than treating it like a begrudged afterthought. - They offer mainly 1 (fairly good) choice in each application rather than 3 or 30. - For what is essentially still a beta release, it is very stable and predictable. Solid - like you expect Linux to be. On Thu, 30 May 2002 00:18:35 -0400 Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Start with the install GUI. Pure Caldera. If you didn't know that it > was Redmond you'd swear you were installing e2.4 except it does a > better job of auto detecting. Once installed the GUI bootup is Caldera > except that it says Redmond where Caldera would normally be presented. > Once installed it runs as smooth as silk although a little slow > opening up the bundled Mozilla browser. Put the boot in the mbr for a > dual boot and the boot selection screen is pure caldera.I installed it > on a box that had e2.4 on it, but there were some annoying bugs like > Netscape mail would drop out on an irregular basis when I hit Get > Message. That doesn't happen with Redmond. It has a few things in the > distro that are kind of neat. The cd burner runs straight out of the > package with my iomega burner, so does the camera photo package. And > unlike 3.1 getting the cdrom and floppy icons is not a hassle. All you > have to do is drop and drag the icons out of the My Linux icon. Built > on the 2.4.14 kernel the thing appears to be Super 2.4, but Caldera > never went that way and they missed the boat. It is nice to know that > after Caldera folds there will still be a Caldera like distro out > there. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
