Caldera 3.1.1

[Matthew Carpenter]

begin  "Collins" <erichey2 at attbi.com>
(Thu, 23 May 2002 15:33:18 -0600)

<snip>
> While I support the concept of developing your own distro (it's good
> clean fun and educational and who could resist a Skippy distro
> <grin>), I question the long term viability.  Either you choose an RPM
> binary distro, in which case you'd better choose a directory structure
> something like RedHat or you need someone to maintain a repository of
> new RPMs that match your structure.  Or you could try something based
> on SRPMs in which case you effectively have a source based
> distribution using the RPM tool to put it together.
> 
> When and where do you want to spare the time?  In my case I do most of
> the suffering up front (close to a year ago now) unless I want a new
> version of a big hitter like kde or gnome.  For most of the packages
> I'm interested in (sylpheed, xfce, mozilla), I crank up an install in
> an aterm while I'm reading mail or browsing linux news.  Not much pain
> at all.  Much less pain than tinkering with RPMs that weren't designed
> for my system (the Caldera problem in a nutshell).

I'm with you, I choose COL because I really like the feel and I'm comfortable that things work pretty well out of the box.  Additional functionality I can get from FreshMeat or elsewhere and (with the help of CheckInstall or just hacking a SRPM) I can get clean Caldera RPMs

Speaking of which, I've spent some time building several RPMs for cracking WEP.  They require a few RPMs from the ftp2.caldera.com site to get AirSnort to work, but the worst trouble was getting the Linux-WLAN drivers patched and working.  
I have not completed the task of cracking WEP with them, but they all seem to work correctly.  If anyone is interested, email me offlist.  If anyone is interested in hosting compiled RPMs for different distros (Caldera in particular), I'd be interested in sharing!  It should be a pretty fast site.

Matt