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RE: RedHat...



On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Ofer Maor wrote:

> A. Is Caldera worth the effort? I mean - since caldera is older RedHat, I 
> need to install Caldera, and then upgrade the Red Hat. is it worth the 
> effort, or can I settle for Red Hat 2.1 only?
A. this is only the preview version I am using here, the newone may come 
with a newer RedHat
B. redhat's jewl in the crown is the installation database, which lets 
you install and deinstall individual files and packadges, so you could 
always install a RedHat, and then add an older software pack.

Caldera gives you the desktop and the Netware connectivity, the upcoming 
versions will give also Caldera's port of WordPerfect, OpenDoc support 
and much more.

> B. Do you think SlackWare 3.0 would be better?? from what I Saw included in 
> the RedHat - it has a lot of things that Slackware doens't have. like, httpd, 
> irc, etc (not that it's big deal installing everything - but, u know :) (and 
> setting up color_ls shouldn't be really THAT tough ;).
>
Slackware contains more fun stuff, worktation stuff, which is totally 
different from the RedHat server concept. Both lack a lot, but Red Hat 
seems more prfoessional, and you can run Slackware's 'setup' on it, to 
add packadges afterwords.

if anyone is curious by now, there should be some dcreen shots of the 
Caldera desktop and a rundown of their portings at their site. 
(www.caldera.com, duhh!)



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