What was it about eD 2.4?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Speaking for myself, I liked the fact that I could configure everything 
from the GUI either with an app or the web.  The configuration tools 
left the comments in the config files so that you could edit those 
manually.  If you edited the config files, you could still use the GUI 
tools to configure other things later WITHOUT losing manual updates.

For instance, in caldera I could use webmin or an extension of the kde 
to configure what services to start or stop and when.  I am testing out 
SuSE and I still can't get samba to startup automagically on reboot. 
(Something about xinetd that I still need to chase down..., or maybe 
figure out how to start webmin...)

I liked the binaries being compiled from the sources shipped.  (Not as 
big an issue as it used to be.)  And the testing that went into the 
whole package being stable running the apps that shipped with the 
product.  I even liked the comercial apps that shipped with the product. 
  And I still need a novell client.  (That disappeared after eD 2.4)

FWIW

     -- Alma

> What was it about eD 2.4?
> Tina M Berendt <tina at berendt.homeip.net>
> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:49:11 -0400
> 
> 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....
> 
> It seems to me that it would be a *lot* easier to start with a current 
> base system (perhaps LFS based) and then mold it to be whatever it was 
> about eD that everyone liked instead of taking an old eD and upgrading 
> it (remember that eD wasn't even ready for 2.4.x and 2.6.x is right 
> around the corner).
> 
> So, what *specifically* made eD so great?