Message-Id: Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:57:44 -0500 X-Priority: 3 From: Chad Fernandez X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: "opendos AT delorie DOT com" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Re: Possible DR-DOS enhancements] Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.55 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 1/16/00 2:09:10 PM Okay so now I am really confused! Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA robert w moss-> 1/16/00 9:15:52 AM -> >The latest version I have Open Linux 2.2 which was included in a QUE >Book, 'Using Open Linux v2.2 , (including Netscape, KDE, >WordPerfect 8, LIZARD, Partition Magic, Boot Magic, with whatever >Caldera had worked on at that time, I guess). And I also have v1.3 >which was included in a Que Book, 'The Complete Idiots guide to using >Linux, (also including Star office,and KDE, and RPM). > >I get the following from my reading in QUE v2.2 book: >Since Caldera started out with Red Hat v2.1 in its Caldera Network >Desktop >and Red Hat used Caldera's money in its RPM packaging, which was also >used by Caldera, there is a little confusion as to what is used by each >company. Red Hat still uses the RPM packaging and desktop stuff from >the old days and linuxconf along with a window manager called fvwm95, >but Caldera has stopped using that RPM stuff (?) and is now using a >character based , all-in-one system called LISA. This may be why the >major >magazines evaluators say that Caldera is using Red Hat's distribution. >I have read several recent Linux Evaluations in the Linux magazines which >mention >Caldera using the Red Hat distributions in their latest commercial >versions (2.3). > They also throw in Star Office and BRU in the commercial versions. > >It's food for thought though. Who is really doing what?? >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Bob 'DOMAN' Moss >*"Remember, if you don't have chocolate* >* you don't have food"!!!!..........................*