[Linux-users] SCO vs. Novell

[Leon Goldstein]

Collins Richey wrote:

> <snip>
>
>I always wanted to try Debian, but could never crack the nut until
>Ubuntu came along. Until fairly recently, the principal mission of
>Debian insiders was to prevent the spread of Debian to the unwashed.
>If you weren't a self-proclaimed and breast beating guru, you weren't
>welcome, And if you had need to use anything non-free, you were
>definitely a leper to be avoided at all costs. Ubuntu is far from
>perfect, but it opened up the Debian world, and the Debian insider
>mentality has, thank $DEITY, bit the dust at last, if kicking and
>screaming at times.
>
>  
>
There were several attempts at user-friendly Debians.  Ian Murdoch had a 
boxed Debian, the name of which escapes me at the moment, that used 
LIZARD for installing.  There was also Corel Linux, whose abandonment 
was particularly annoying since the distro had much promise.  Storm 
Linux was a gem, and unfortunately not enough downloaders bothered to 
buy it and keep its developers afloat.  And of course the late lamented 
Libranet was about as user friendly for installation and support as you 
could hope for.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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