Hello Everyone,
Did some quick research on the question.
And the answer is:
Flavor="<A href="http://www.calderasystems.com/openstore/openlinux/" target="_new">"Caldera Open Linux 2.3</a>" for home to power user.
C|net did a nice review on both Red Hat 6.0 and Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
You can read the review at Linux Shoot-Out
Seems to me the war is heating up and things are getting serious.
The Caldera distro has a nice package built in too.
Netscape 4.6.1 (Don't think M$ is released a 5.0 for linux yet)
Star Office (Personal Edition)
Corel WordPerfect 8.0
K Desktop thats a GUI like Windoze but has 80 different themes.
For Allen there is a built in C & C++ compilier and some other Development tools
Sounds nice enuff that I've asked a friend to D/L the full cd iso image and burn it for me. I think over the x-mas break I'm gonna try it out. Hey it includes PartionMagic and BootMagic so the dual boot battle is won!
I'll keep everyone posted on the outcome.
Any feedback in the meantime will be greatly welcomed.
Chuck
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
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Allen M.
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Chuck,
I won't be able to get activly involved in tehse discussions 'till the weekend. Got to put in extra hours to make up for Friday off, and the priority list needs to be complied with too.
However, I am following this, the MP3 clinic and the R/W clinic closely.
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
I won't be able to get activly involved in tehse discussions 'till the weekend. Got to put in extra hours to make up for Friday off, and the priority list needs to be complied with too.
However, I am following this, the MP3 clinic and the R/W clinic closely.
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Tony,
Yeah RIGHT !!!! i can see me compiling software. It would go like this:
Command prompt= Uh what's this blinking cursor thing? Oh yeah i'm to type a command here
tap tap tap =Hmmmm what the hell is this missing lib?
tap tap tap tap = Curse Curse what the ? screw this!!
Shut down and reboot to Windozes
Ahhh much easier, click,click,click done
Bwhahah
Allen,
The only draw back to this install is that you can only do it on Fat 16 & 32 NO NTFS.
Thats why it moved to the burner system.
Picking the cd up today reading all the online doc's and preping for a install by wednesday afternoon.
Cheers,
Chuck
Yeah RIGHT !!!! i can see me compiling software. It would go like this:
Command prompt= Uh what's this blinking cursor thing? Oh yeah i'm to type a command here
tap tap tap =Hmmmm what the hell is this missing lib?
tap tap tap tap = Curse Curse what the ? screw this!!
Shut down and reboot to Windozes
Ahhh much easier, click,click,click done
Bwhahah
Allen,
The only draw back to this install is that you can only do it on Fat 16 & 32 NO NTFS.
Thats why it moved to the burner system.
Picking the cd up today reading all the online doc's and preping for a install by wednesday afternoon.
Cheers,
Chuck
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Allen M.
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Gotta have NTFS. I compress all my volumes
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Allen,
Is your boot drive NTFS also?(maybe a redundent Question)PartionMagic can convert a small chunk to fat so LiLo can live then sacrafice a small chunk to Caldera and see what happens?
Just a thought
Chuck
Is your boot drive NTFS also?(maybe a redundent Question)PartionMagic can convert a small chunk to fat so LiLo can live then sacrafice a small chunk to Caldera and see what happens?
Just a thought
Chuck
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Allen M.
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Hi Chuck,
For some strange reason I leave all my boot partitions uncompressed fat, size 2-Gig.
January at the earliest will I have some play time, but when I get that monster driveI plan to give 2 gig to boot, 2 gig to play, then the rest of it will be one big mutha NT compressed partition.
I requested the Seagate Elite with my new PC -- seems they have to contact the manufacturer special for that one, but I may hold back a little because Intel has been making some loud noises about their 800MHz chip, going to be a little different from the Coppermine. I hope they don't blow it like they did with the Celeron chip.
I'm going to spring for a new system, but everything has to be right before I gopher it, including the phase of the moon.
Delphi, eh? I kinda forgot that Delphi is kinda OO Pascal, right?
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
For some strange reason I leave all my boot partitions uncompressed fat, size 2-Gig.
January at the earliest will I have some play time, but when I get that monster driveI plan to give 2 gig to boot, 2 gig to play, then the rest of it will be one big mutha NT compressed partition.
I requested the Seagate Elite with my new PC -- seems they have to contact the manufacturer special for that one, but I may hold back a little because Intel has been making some loud noises about their 800MHz chip, going to be a little different from the Coppermine. I hope they don't blow it like they did with the Celeron chip.
I'm going to spring for a new system, but everything has to be right before I gopher it, including the phase of the moon.
Delphi, eh? I kinda forgot that Delphi is kinda OO Pascal, right?
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Allen,
The time should be right on December 22nd.
Full moon and Winter Solstice. AWESOME!!
Not realy sure on Delphi seems pretty BASIC I was told it's close to C.
Good luck on the PC. I'm waiting on the 800's to hit sub $175 till I jump on that band wagon. Or I may actually buy a prebuilt system.
Cheers,
Chuck
The time should be right on December 22nd.
Full moon and Winter Solstice. AWESOME!!
Not realy sure on Delphi seems pretty BASIC I was told it's close to C.
Good luck on the PC. I'm waiting on the 800's to hit sub $175 till I jump on that band wagon. Or I may actually buy a prebuilt system.
Cheers,
Chuck
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Allen M.
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Sub-What? Hello Rip....
A coppermine plus that funny-looking green and "copper" color flat thing it sticks into is going to cost me about 1,500.
I'll hafta look into Delphi a little more, but the buzz-words I heard yesterday were "OO Pascal" and "more powerful than C++."
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
A coppermine plus that funny-looking green and "copper" color flat thing it sticks into is going to cost me about 1,500.
I'll hafta look into Delphi a little more, but the buzz-words I heard yesterday were "OO Pascal" and "more powerful than C++."
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Allen, now at his new website www.ury2k.com
What Flavor Unix, and would you "Jump Ship" if you could do
Well I jumped hard into this intsall!
NO messing with PartionMagic or BootMagic.
Reboot with Cd in and reformat the drive!
Pretty painless so far.
Caldera has done a very nice job on the install/setup screen and process !
Hate to say this but I have to relate it some how.
Going through the install is like an old Win 95 install but less painful
Select a language ( 6 offered)
Verify mouse is working (PS2 serial USB) They are after you on the USB Tony
Set up video card (auto-detected the Matrox Mystique Fine) Supports enuff cards that you should be covered. Also has a "Probe" feature to figure out what card you have.
Set up Monitor Pretty good collection of monitors if not answer some techie questions(refresh rates Vert and Horiz. freq rates)
Choose color and desktop size (allows Testing)
Chose the Hard drive to install to
Chose the Install Type about 6 options here
1. Compact (160megs)
2. Typical (600 megs)
3. Workstation (500 megs)
4. Developments (640 megs)
5. Home (840 megs)
6. File server (???megs)
might have be a couple others not sure
Painfully slow off a 4x CD-Rom drive!
I chose the Home Computer option @840megs
Set up the user accounts
Played a game of Blocks (Tetris clone)
Chose the DHCP option as I have Network card installed (also autodected fine)and run a DHCP server on NT.
Finished up rebooted and logged in
Took under 1 hour
Still messing with.
Cheers,
Chuck
p.s.
Plug-N-Play is supported
NO messing with PartionMagic or BootMagic.
Reboot with Cd in and reformat the drive!
Pretty painless so far.
Caldera has done a very nice job on the install/setup screen and process !
Hate to say this but I have to relate it some how.
Going through the install is like an old Win 95 install but less painful
Select a language ( 6 offered)
Verify mouse is working (PS2 serial USB) They are after you on the USB Tony
Set up video card (auto-detected the Matrox Mystique Fine) Supports enuff cards that you should be covered. Also has a "Probe" feature to figure out what card you have.
Set up Monitor Pretty good collection of monitors if not answer some techie questions(refresh rates Vert and Horiz. freq rates)
Choose color and desktop size (allows Testing)
Chose the Hard drive to install to
Chose the Install Type about 6 options here
1. Compact (160megs)
2. Typical (600 megs)
3. Workstation (500 megs)
4. Developments (640 megs)
5. Home (840 megs)
6. File server (???megs)
might have be a couple others not sure
Painfully slow off a 4x CD-Rom drive!
I chose the Home Computer option @840megs
Set up the user accounts
Played a game of Blocks (Tetris clone)
Chose the DHCP option as I have Network card installed (also autodected fine)and run a DHCP server on NT.
Finished up rebooted and logged in
Took under 1 hour
Still messing with.
Cheers,
Chuck
p.s.
Plug-N-Play is supported
