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[Brett I. Holcomb]

What's Elx?

Ken Moffat wrote:

> 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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