I had a Caldera distro that I won as a giveaway, a couple of releases ago.
It was rough around the edges, but not so bad that it convinced me to avoid
a more recent boxed set from them. That one was worse. It suffered even
more from comparision with concurrent installs of RedHat and Corel on a
couple of other systems. BTW, I still think Corel is the best
underappreciated distro I've seen, wish the marketplace would wake up and
warm up to them.
Show you the error of your ways, well, if you don't sh**can that Caldera
distro it'll be easy to do that!
And *PLEASE* don't dispose of it in any way that will subject an
unsuspecting newby to it!
--Brucem
Robert Yelle wrote:
> At the GNHLUG meeting wednesday there was a Caldera give away.
> I am looking for any feedback from other victims of this OS.
> I will say the auto sensing part is nice (auto magically found the
> networked printers and NIS domain)
> This is unique because it was before the install was complete.
> That would be if the install ever did complete.
> The really weird part is (vs redhat) is the packages begin to install
> before all parameters are set.
> i.e. ip data ,time zone ect......
> The clunk clunk of the process is very painful at this point .pages take
> minutes to update.
> the install takes hours and has died three times.
>
> The first time I installed I simply clicked thru using all recommended
> fields selecting all packages was my only deviation.
> the second time was straight up all defaults. (obvious changes were made
> for time et)
> the third time I partitioned the disk by hand and selected mim install
> pkgs. all hung like a bat.
>
> I installed it in on a pentium mmx 200 with 64 meg and a 4.2 g hard
> drive.
> This is a fine system that has installed many redhat versions.
>
> I like the look of the pages but the function is low.
> Please show me the error of my ways.
>
> Rob Yelle
>
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