So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
- It was solid. It worked. It was stable. Gave the impression that some real QA had gone into it.
- Webmin and Caldera's extensions to the KDE control center were great.
- They focused on 1 GUI and made that one work really well.
- Their manual was quite good (for a newbie anyway).
- It was not a "kitchen sink" distro (sensible choices for all apps, not just a shrink wrapped CD dump of FreshMeat/Sourceforge)
- Lizard. Still the best installer. Red Hat's Anaconda is only now beginning to approach it (some 3+ years later).
- It was reasonably priced.
- People like Marcus Meissner (sp?) that participated on the list, and even released packages for users to try.
- In that same vein, the release was not frozen in time. Updated packages were released by the company. KDE 2 is the one I remember best.
Things that were terrible about eD:
- The installer would sometimes just barf and refuse to install without the slightest hint of why. They never did fix that one.
Michael
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