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Net Llama! shocked and awed us all by speaking:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tina M Berendt wrote:
> > So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
>
> 0) Nearly everything worked out of the box (hardware, software)

nod. much like Knoppix's hardware detection these days. *very* nice

> 1) The packages included were well chosen.  There was a little of
> everything for everyone, and not too much of anything irrelevant

that's subjective Llama (I'm not disagreeing). But how does one define 'well 
chosen' and 'relevant'?

> 2) It was very stable, and getting addons running was relatively easy

true that. but what distro(s) are unstable these days? and by 'easy' do you 
mean installing an rpm, or installing from source?

> 3) Everything was integrated well.  It didn't feel like some packages were
> shoehorned into place, just because.

agreed
- -- 
Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
http://doug.hunley.homeip.net && http://www.linux-sxs.org

Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch 
to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, 
written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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