> Well PC Quests move to bring Caldera on Cdrom seems to be a purely
> commercial move , done in favour of Caldera for some incentives ! rather
> than community service to the linux in India.
> Caldera was once a popular distro but its popularity has been on the
> downfall since a couple of yrs.
>   A quick look into the cdrom will tell u that nearly all of the softs r of
> older version than RH 7.1 . ..oops PCQ Linux 7.1 , so distributing Caldera
> seems to be a rather unproductive move.
>   If PCQ wanted to distribute an alteranate distro which is sleek and less
> bloated then they should have given Debian or much better Slackware (May its
> tribe grow!).
>   Or if PCQ wanted to show the ease of linux then they should have tried
> Mandrake or Suse.
>    Or even much better they should have released upgrades to the existing RH
> 7.1 (7.2 Is out since a
> couple of months).
>    IMHO Caldera is one CD wasted for PCQ Readers.
>   There seems to be no reason for a linux user specially a non techie user
> to move to Caldera from RH 7.1.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ankur Agarwal
>
>

Hi

       Thanks very much for a lucid and well reasoned out  reply

         N S Srikanth






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