What was it about eD 2.4?

[Richard Thompson]

At 01:49 PM 7/31/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old Caldera 
>distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify what it 
>was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout? The 
>installer? The GUI tools? What? I used and loved eD, but find it hard to 
>say why I felt it was so nice. I *think* a lot of my fondness has to do 
>simply with familiarity... once I learned "the Caldera way" on OpenLinux, 
>eD was such a natural progression that I think a lot of my 'it was so 
>great' is simply because I *knew* it.. however, I now 'know' SuSE, but 
>don't have the same warm fuzzy when talking about it as I do when talking 
>about eD....
><snip>

 From my perspective eD was great simply because it worked.  It worked each 
time I installed it, it continued to work, and it, in fact, still works on 
at least one machine.  The installer worked, the combination of executables 
and libraries and such worked on any piece of hardware I threw at it ... in 
short, it all worked, all the time.  I'm currently using RH9 for production 
stuff, but have used TurboLinux and SuSE.  eD was never bleeding edge and 
perhaps that is part of the "it worked", but I'd rather have "it worked" 
any day than "it works, but I need to fiddle, or deal with this or that, or 
muck about with a dependency issue, etc." on a fairly regular basis as I do 
with RH9.  YMMV

- Rich Thompson