You did not address your blatent lie about gmc. This makes anything else you might have to say very questionable.
You obviosly have never tried Conectiva. mslicker wrote: > Yes, > > This is the last email I will send on this topic. > > You are correct that Caldera has earned a reputation for being very > proprietary. From an agnostic point of view, it can make a great deal of > sense for those deploying desktop Linux (not only on LTSP). The reason is > that it's unfortunately the only distrobution that isn't loaded with tons > of crap honestly threatens real-world rollouts without other distros. > > Most Linux enthusiasts don't use it, because it's normally out of date > compared to all the others. This is because Caldera has put together > the only distro that does have redundant applications and the only > distro on all the included applications work and work properly out of > the box. > > Most RPMs don't work between any other distros either, except for Red Hat > and Mandrake. Caldera isn't the best choice for everything, but it can > make the best choice for the areas in which it is focused. > > It is certainly a trouble-free distro for administors. > > --Matthew > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Michael H. Collins wrote: > > >>Enough FUD. gmc does not require gnome. >> >>And Caldera is the most proprietary Distro there is. Their RPMS do not >>work on other distros and Mostly vice-versa too. >> >>If Caldera was so good more Real Penguinistas would use it. >> >>mslicker wrote: >> >> >>>Those programs require GNOME. If you run them through straight ICEwm, you >>>will also be running GNOME. However, it will be faster because you will >>>have configured it yourself and thus will not have put all those billions >>>of other things into it like the major distrobutions do. That's why it's >>>faster.. You can get the same effect by optimizing what is loaded when >>>you run KDE or GNOME--but it's a lot of work. Caldera, however, did not >>>do this and therefore KDE 2.2 is very comparably fast and light on their >>>beta 3.1 desktop. >>> >> >>-- >>Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com >>Linux Streaming Radio http://www.kpig.com >>Penguins are so sensitive. Lyle Lovett >> >> > > > -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Linux Streaming Radio http://www.kpig.com Penguins are so sensitive. Lyle Lovett _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
