What was it about eD 2.4?

[Keith Antoine]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 06:40 am, Richard Thompson wrote:

>  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

The thing was one could make it bleeding edge and in 90% of the cases it 
accepted the installs and still worked. I know I had bleeding edge installs 
up and running quickly, also remember when printers were an real pain. The 
lsit and caldera got them going 'fast', also I remember helping getting cdrom 
drives working.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
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