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[Ken Moffat]

How about Elx. Anyone tried it? Seems extremely full featured and pretty
stable (prerelease). It is a bit on the bloated side.

On Thu, 09 May 2002 19:37:07 -0500
"Brett I. Holcomb" <bholcomb at R777cableone.net> wrote:

> What do you recommend then for a distro?  I see - and this is based
> only on my time in the newsgroups and mailing lists:
> 
> RH - the MS an AOL of the Linux world: breaks rules, doesn't maintain 
> standards,bleeding edge, doesn't have much of a clue.  They made it
> popular but lost it
> 
> SUSE - ?
> 
> Mandrake - ?
> 
> Debian - ?
> 
> Who else is there - Maybe use gentoo to set it up and then make your
> own changes and updates (I do that with Caldera anyway in that I
> upgrade the kernels and some of the apps).
> 
> What distros are worth installing in that they include what they are 
> supposed to and follow the standards?
> 
> I would like to know as I'm building a Linux workstation and also a
> file server.  I'd planned to use Caldera Server 3.1.1 and WS 3.1.1.
> 
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 May 2002, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> >> On Thursday 09 May 2002 19:13 pm, dep wrote:
> >> > fyi, we did a little interview with ransom love an hour or so
> >ago;> > it's up now:
> >>
> >> Sorry, but I don't buy the 'tough market' as being the sole reason
> >for> their
> >> demise.   I still 'lurk' on the Caldera List and I cringe everytime
> >I see> someone struggling mightily to compile something or upgrade
> >something> else because Caldera 'forgot' or didn't include it in
> >their stealth> distro.
> >>
> >> I gave up on Caldera two years ago when the hand writing was on the
> >wall> that they were no longer interested in the retail market and I
> >have never> looked back.
> >>
> >> I think they've lost it.
> > 
> > Indeed, i'll never install Caldera on any box again.  I'm nursing my
> > sole original Caldera box right now with rebuilt SRPMs from various
> > sources.
> > 
> > If i had a penny for every CEO who is blaming their lack of profits
> > on the economy or 9/11 i'd be quite wealthy.
> > 
> 
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