Caldera List

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:42:41 -0600
Rick Sivernell <res005ru at gte.net> wrote:

> List
> 
>    I have been watching this last bit of conversation with bated
> interest. I am using Caldera stuff still. But it appears I need to do
> some heavy consideration of moving to something else. At this time I
> have a lack of funds to buy much in OS's. I like the setup of the
> eServer/eWorkstation 3.1.1 systems, but they are starting to fall back
> in the stable side of cutting edge. While I do not want bleading edge,
> since I am still do college software design for one more year. I would
> like the opion of this list, no flames as I know we all love our
> stuff <g>. 
> 
> 1.  Should I stay with what I have and just upgrade it as I can to
> xfree 4.3 kernel 2.4.20.X gcc 3.2, I really do not care for kde and I
> am using xfce 3.18 xterm 3.19 ?

If I were you, I'd stay with what I have right now.  If you have a spare
partition, you might try to install something else to play with.  I'd
suggest you look at Knoppix.  Knoppix is a basic distro you can even
install to a hard drive (unfortunately, they don't allow XFS install). 
It's based on Debian, so a chicken can do upkeep (upgrade, maintenance).
 dselect takes care of all dependencies for you, not like RPM.  IMHO,
it's always been the best, just that annoying GNU stupidity.

Boot up Knoppix and play with it.  You can do almost anything without
affecting your isntalled system as long as you don't make your hard disk
read/write.

> 
> 2. dump it and move to another distro.
> 
> System SCSI drives and cdroms NVida RNT2 video Asus P3 mobo.
> 750+ meg memory soundcard nic and some other general stuff.
> 
> Any thoughts here as to what direct I might want to go. Cheers to all
> 
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Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
		Nemesis Racing Team motto
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