lycoris

[Collins]

On Thu, 30 May 2002 22:04:18 -0400 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 05:43:46 -0400
> dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> 
> > begin  Keith Antoine's  quote:
> > 
> > | AFAIK it is built on eD2.4 and it is supposedly the release that
> > | 3.0 + should have been but was not. In upgrades and also the
> > | ease of installation plus the availabilty of upgrade rpms etc.
> > 
> > it's going to be *very* interesting this morning to hear what the 
> > caldera-turbo-suse-conectiva plan is. if the story is as it has
> > been presented so far, it could well turn into the
> > uberdistribution that we've sought and then simply be a matter of
> > whose administration tools are least overbearing and objectionable
> > (my chief complaint with suse). this presupposes that they
> > announce the right stuff and further presupposes that they pull it
> > off, but i awakened this morning more optimistic about the future
> > of distributional linux than i have been in a couple of years.
> 
> Still optimistic, dep? I, for one, am glad *that's* over. Nothing
> like having my hope clubbed to death like a baby seal to start my
> day off right. I should have known better. Once again, Caldera has
> snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Fscking amazing.
> 
> > the opening exists for them now to do it right. fingers crossed, 
> > everybody.
> 
> That's the last time I cross *my* fingers.
> 

We know about Caldera (Corporate Logo should be a toilet bowl all
aflush).  The other players seem to have some business smarts, so why
are they aligning themselves with an unlucky player?


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