How to un-Caldera my box

[Chong Yu Meng]

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>On Thu, 15 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
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>>So my basic question is two parts:
>>a)  what makes my distro a Caldera distro (other than boot scripts)?
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I've been looking for a distro that is as close to Caldera as possible 
for a very long time. The closest thing I found was TurboLinux. The 
trouble is, TurboLinux is now part of UnitedLinux, though you can still 
get their latest TurboLinux Server 8 off their ftp servers in Japan 
(slow) or China (much faster, but careful about SARS :)) I used it for a 
while, and the web server of the last company I worked for 
(http://www.Tranxacta.com) runs that. Pretty solid distribution with 
good double-byte support and quite good for programmers (because it 
doesn't dump a lot of stuff in your hard disk). Seemed faster than any 
other Linux distro I tried, with the possible exception of Slackware, 
properly configured. My only gripe is that it always seemed to be one 
version (sometimes two) behind the other distros, and security and other 
updates are spotty. But if you compile everything from scratch anyway, 
it may be just the right one for you.


I'm privately hoping that they will leave UnitedLinux and try to get 
even more popular in Asia.

Regards,
pascal chong