I went from Caldera 2.4 to Redhat 7.1.
I bought the shrink wrapped version (deluxe workstation I think) so there
may be some differences between mine and yours.
Redhat 7.1 has much better multimedia and much better support of video than
caldera 2.4 straight out of the box.
It has an audio server, which is used by most if not all of its
audio software.
xinitd or whatever is a bit different from initd.
You will be able to keep using ipchains.
You will be able to keep using LPRng.
KDE 2 or whatever is much more polished than kde 1 or whatever came with
caldera 2.4.
It is much harder to compile things on Redhat.
Unlike SUSE and Mandrake, the basic arrangement of the startup scripts, networking,
printing, and configuration scripts is about the same, so, it was a nearly painless
transition.
I made the big mistake when installing Redhat to let it configure it all for
me automatically as a client machine, not as a server. (I just got lazy and
impatient.) Things like samba and the telnet and ftp servers were
not installed as a client. Better to install it as a server/client and do some extra
work yourself upfront.
The best thing about Redhat 7.1 is the automatic updating you get if you buy
the shrink wrap version. I don't know if that will be available to you.
My installation went painlessly except: My Voodoo(3 or 4, I forget) video card was
not supported properly. I had to look for a driver, otherwise my 3D screen
savers always hung up the machine. Bugzilla (?) was very useful.
The Redhat web site I have found a real nuisance to use.
Joel
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