anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

Collins Richey crichey
Wed May 18 21:20:45 PDT 2005


On 5/18/05, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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> Tony Alfrey wrote:
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> > I still think we should take Caldera 3.1, clean out all of the old
> > references to Caldera, stick in a 2.6 kernel, upgrade kde and
> > glibc and various apps, and release our own distro. In other
> > words, we keep lizard (sanitized, of course) and the boot scripts.
> > And David Bandel can write a new book to go along with it. We can
> > call it No-SCO-ix.
> >
> As much as I like the thought, maintaining a distro is not something
> many of us have time for.  We've now become embroiled in the rest of
> earning our income.  

This is deja vu all over again. A year or more ago we were considering
the same thing, and it was to be called Skippy Linux.

Speaking of whom - has anyone heard from the old rascal?

-- 
 Collins
       Head teachers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but 
       the Start button.



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