Caldera 3.1.1

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:31:42 -0600
"Collins" <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> I think Skippy is just trying to tell me what we all learned along the
> way.  Caldera was never especially good at providing updates (except
> for security), and the Caldera file setup was sufficiently different,
> that most RPMS would not work without major surgery.
> 
> If you want an upgradable system, try RedHat/Mandrake or Debian
> (updates for most things available), Slackware (somewhat fewer
> choices.  Or gentoo (if you can tolerate updates from source), but I'm
> not supposed to say that out loud.

To each his own.  What do you want out of a distro?  The is something
(IIRC) called Wizard Linux, where after a dinky base install (like a
Kernel and the installer) it downloads and installs everything from
source...  It could be fun, if you can spare the time  :)