"Bruce Perens writes:" > > From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > By the by, for reasons that are mostly, but not entirely, > > technical, Caldera will no longer be basin their OS on RedHat > > linux. They purchased Linux FT ans will base their next release > > (Caldera Open Linux or COL) on that. The sales rep I spoke with > > was unsure as to what package format they would be using. > > Maybe Bruce and Ian should give them a call?
Actually, our next release, Caldera OpenLinux (COL) 1.0 is based primarily on LST's distribution. Some Linux FT technology such as POSIX certification is being integrated into COL. COL currently uses RPM. Nevertheless, we have several Debian fans here at Caldera. If Debian 1.0 was out when we we're making distribution decisions, we might have used it. There's a lot of history and backwards compatibility issues now that keep us on our current Linux distribution course. > I am in regular correspondence with LaserMoon. They are interested > enough in Debian that they run a few Debian systems. That says nothing > about their commercial plans, which they have not disclosed to me, and > which of course I wouldn't publish without their permission. Who have you been talking to? Ian Nandhra? He works for Caldera. > I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope > the availability of WABI doesn't impede WINE's progress. Why? Wine's approach is quite similar to Wabi's. Anyway, we too would like to see Wine move forward. When it can support the apps that Wabi supports, we won't have to pay Sun a royalty anymore... Until then, Linux users now have the option of purchasing Wabi for Linux. Back when Caldera was a project inside Novell, we were quite hopeful that we could use Wine instead of Wabi. I wrote the (now outdated) Docs/Resources.Z file included in the Wine source. In addition, our group at Novell paid an outside consulting firm lotsa bucks to accelerate the development of Wine. This firm didn't make a lot of progress and in any case, Novell dumped the work they did into the bit bucket. I believe we also bought Bob Amstadt a disk drive for his Wine development machine. Later, we convinced Ray Noorda to buy Willows Software. They've also made progress but still can't run all the apps Wabi can. Anyway, after three years I can look back and see the progress that the Wine group has made. I hope they keep up the good work. But Sun has spent millions of dollars over the last 6 years to get Wabi to its current level of functionality. I feel many people still don't realize the difficulty in cloning MS Windows. But I digress... Ron -- Ron Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Caldera, Inc. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]