What was it about eD 2.4?

[Michael Hipp]

Tina M Berendt wrote:
> So, what *specifically* made eD so great?

- It was solid. It worked. It was stable. Gave the impression that some 
real QA had gone into it.

- Webmin and Caldera's extensions to the KDE control center were great.

- They focused on 1 GUI and made that one work really well.

- Their manual was quite good (for a newbie anyway).

- It was not a "kitchen sink" distro (sensible choices for all apps, not 
just a shrink wrapped CD dump of FreshMeat/Sourceforge)

- Lizard. Still the best installer. Red Hat's Anaconda is only now 
beginning to approach it (some 3+ years later).

- It was reasonably priced.

- People like Marcus Meissner (sp?) that participated on the list, and 
even released packages for users to try.

- In that same vein, the release was not frozen in time. Updated 
packages were released by the company. KDE 2 is the one I remember best.


Things that were terrible about eD:

- The installer would sometimes just barf and refuse to install without 
the slightest hint of why. They never did fix that one.


Michael