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Tina M Berendt wrote: | Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old | Caldera distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify | what it was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout? | The installer? The GUI tools? What? I used and loved eD, but find it | hard to say why I felt it was so nice. I *think* a lot of my fondness | has to do simply with familiarity... once I learned "the Caldera way" on | OpenLinux, eD was such a natural progression that I think a lot of my | 'it was so great' is simply because I *knew* it.. however, I now 'know' | SuSE, but don't have the same warm fuzzy when talking about it as I do | when talking about eD.... | | It seems to me that it would be a *lot* easier to start with a current | base system (perhaps LFS based) and then mold it to be whatever it was | about eD that everyone liked instead of taking an old eD and upgrading | it (remember that eD wasn't even ready for 2.4.x and 2.6.x is right | around the corner). | | So, what *specifically* made eD so great? |
I think that at least 50% of it was attributable to the caldera-users mailing list. There were quite a few people there who helped make it what it was, and luckily enough, they made the transition to this list. We may bicker, roll our eyes, scoff or call each other names, but that dynamic is also what makes a list worth listening to. The other 50% was the fact that it was painless as far as supported hardware close to the cutting edge for the time, there were few incompatibility issues with the software, and it began appearing on retail shelves where anyone could pick it up and try it. It didn't cost $129, it started at a reasonable price ($39 was the highest I ever saw) and their support was pretty good. They participated (some employees) in the community and their support group which earned them some points too.
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