🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:14:17 GMT, Jimmy Chan <jimmy@hgea.org> wrote:

>I've used Caldera Linux and it worked fine after a few initial snafus.
>The whole installation was a snap, answered about 2 or 3 prompts and
>away it went, and it even allowed me to play Tetris while it was
>installing away.  When it booted it came up with the KDE desktop (or
>was it the other desktop, forget).  I bought Caldera Linux last year
>after reading that the installation to it was simple.  More recently,
>I've read that RedHat installation was a lot better but I haven't
>gotten a copy of RedHat as yet, still a bit expensive.  I bought
>Caldera for $20.  I should mention that somehow during the
>installation my WordPerfect got messed up and didn't display correctly
>though everything else tested and worked fine.
>
>I've literally installed at least a hundred or more Windows operating
>systems and the Caldera Linux setup was virtually as painless as
>Windows, I was impressed by from a $20 piece of software.  Windows can
>pick up more devices than many distributions of Linux but what Windows
>cannot correctly install can also cause major problems.
>
>I recently picked up TurboLinux for $25 and a $20 rebate so net cost
>is about $5.  I've yet to install it but for $5 it a damn sight
>cheaper than Windows.


Caldera is one of the ones I tried, and it did get things mostly
right, but I still haven't been successful in installing any
additional software with the sole exception of StarOffice.

Since I'm fortunate enough to have an ADSL connection, I've been able
to download several different distributiions and burn them to CD's; I
would have been more than annoyed if I had paid even $20.00 for a
program that did not work as expected.

As for devices not recognized by Windows causing problems, I've not
seen this to be the case, since most, if not all manufacturers include
drivers for the appropriate version of Windows, but not as often for
Linux.  USB devices would be an excellent example.