Chuck Peters on Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:09:25 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] seen the caldera screnshots?


On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 rsuchowi@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu wrote:

> I have tried several times unsuccessfully to use the lizard interface to set up a
> caldera box.  They have some issues with video with x and kde setup as well as
> some other nagging "features" like NEEDING  win95 or higher set up to run the
> setup programs ie, creation of the lizard, or lisa disks, as well as the setup of
> partition magic to create a linux partition.  IMHO, you can see why Novell started
> to loose  market share early/mid 90's when you look at the half baked job that
> caldera did on the setup program (note that the founders of caldera were at Novell
> when it started it's decent).  I have setup redhat, debian, slackware and my
> latest attempt was caldera.  I keep on coming back to the RH distribution because
> it seems to be the easiest to set up and maintain.

I haven't use Red Hat much recently and I really like Debian's dselect and
apt-get programs for keeping the machines updated and maintained.  Why do
you think RedHat is easier to maintain than Debian? 

Thanks,
Chuck



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