What was it about eD 2.4?

[Net Llama!]

No offense, but what's with the critique of answers?  I didn't realize that 
this had do be an essay with well thought out replies.

On 07/31/03 12:01, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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> Net Llama! shocked and awed us all by speaking:
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>>On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tina M Berendt wrote:
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>>>So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
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>>0) Nearly everything worked out of the box (hardware, software)
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> nod. much like Knoppix's hardware detection these days. *very* nice
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>>1) The packages included were well chosen.  There was a little of
>>everything for everyone, and not too much of anything irrelevant
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> that's subjective Llama (I'm not disagreeing). But how does one define 'well 
> chosen' and 'relevant'?
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>>2) It was very stable, and getting addons running was relatively easy
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> true that. but what distro(s) are unstable these days? and by 'easy' do you 
> mean installing an rpm, or installing from source?
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>>3) Everything was integrated well.  It didn't feel like some packages were
>>shoehorned into place, just because.
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> agreed


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