Still the best...

[Shawn L Johnston]

On Friday 21 June 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote:
> I agree with you ideally.  I (and many others) have been suggesting the
> creation of a base distro for some time.  It just makes sense.  

One of the greatest likes about Caldera is the ease of installation. I grit 
my teath in anger every time I read one of these articles about how easy 
Mandrake or Red Hat is to install. To be fair, I haven't really done anything 
with Red Hat since 6.2. 

How can anyone stand Mandrake's installation program though is a mystery to 
me. I don't find that its hard, its just so bloody long. In general I also 
haven't seen that it has better hardware support than Caldera does either, 
but maybe I haven't compared enough machines. Add to that trying to find info 
on their support pages is a memorable experience, nor is Red Hat's support 
site much better.

I like the basic ideas on UnitedLinux, but Lizard would be one thing I hope 
doesn't leave Caldera's implementation. I know Lizard isn't perfect, but it 
seems better than anything else I've tried. Is anything else out there as 
good or better on this? I have not tried SUSE...


Shawn