lycoris

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks all for the replies.  It sounds very good - like it was done right! 
However, if it's basically eD2.4 reorganized why do I want it when I can 
get others with the latest kernels, etc?  

Thanks.

Michael Hipp wrote:

> In addition to everything Lee said ...
> 
> - The menu's are organized logically and with prose names like "CD
> Player" or somesuch rather than the consonant-laden gibberish that
> passes for menus on most distros.
> 
> - Most all the options that a user might want to configure are in one
> GUI config tool and in logical places with sensible names.
> 
> - They focus their energy on perfecting one GUI instead of 2 or 10.
> 
> - It turns to advantage inter-operability on a Windows network rather
> than treating it like a begrudged afterthought.
> 
> - They offer mainly 1 (fairly good) choice in each application rather
> than 3 or 30.
> 
> - For what is essentially still a beta release, it is very stable and
> predictable. Solid - like you expect Linux to be.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 00:18:35 -0400
> Lee <rathaus at gtcom.net> wrote:
> 
>> Start with the install GUI. Pure Caldera. If you didn't know that it
>> was Redmond you'd swear you were installing e2.4 except it does a
>> better job of auto detecting. Once installed the GUI bootup is Caldera
>> except that it says Redmond where Caldera would normally be presented.
>> Once installed it runs as smooth as silk although a little slow
>> opening up the bundled Mozilla browser. Put the boot in the mbr for a
>> dual boot and the boot selection screen is pure caldera.I installed it
>> on a box that had e2.4 on it, but there were some annoying bugs like
>> Netscape mail would drop out on an irregular basis when I hit Get
>> Message. That doesn't happen with Redmond. It has a few things in the
>> distro that are kind of neat. The cd burner runs straight out of the
>> package with my iomega burner, so does the camera photo package. And
>> unlike 3.1 getting the cdrom and floppy icons is not a hassle. All you
>> have to do is drop and drag the icons out of the My Linux icon. Built
>> on the 2.4.14 kernel the thing appears to be Super 2.4, but Caldera
>> never went that way and they missed the boat. It is nice to know that
>> after Caldera folds there will still be a Caldera like distro out
>> there.

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