hey, gang! y'know what the world needs? yet another linux distribution!
now, i admit that you might attribute this notion to the fact that i'm on some pretty fearsomely effective painkillers at the moment due to a physician who probably should have been a meat packer, but hear me out. in my little column on wednesday, while bitching about the general behavior of distributors in general, i put forth the opinion that caldera edesktop was for its time the best linux distribution from anyone ever. i used it for ages, upgrading stuff as needed; probably would be using it still but for having fubared the thing with a glibc upgrade that broke just about everything. my fault, i think -- it's possible even to upgrade glibc; i've done it, in fact did it before on 2.4. anyway, the distributions have gone kind of haywire, off in all kinds of goofy directions. so what i'm wondering is how difficult it would be to put together a modern distribution based on 2.4, with everything simply updated to newer stuff. i've been through a whole collection of other distros, and they all fall short -- rh puts stuff in weird places; suse is just too damned, well, suse; debian is debian and slack is slack; mandrake tends to be rh only broken. and so on. and fact is, the distro i want to be running is caldera 2.4 upgraded to the current century. suppose a recipe for this could be cooked up? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
