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Pat,

I have downloaded DRDOS several times actually.  I made sure I wanted
it, before I bought it.  I like having the cd-rom to install from, for
one thing.

Open linux would be just way to big for me to download.  I really bad
phone lines in this apartment that limit my connection speed to about
24000bps.  I knew I would need some documentation for it too.  The cds
are nice too!

Patrick Moran wrote:
> Both could be downloaded for free. You must not have bothered to check it
> out thoroughly. I downloaded 7.01, 7.02 and 7.02 to 7.03 updates from
> Caldera before Lineo took over. I did not bother to get Open Linux. Of
> course I just go to the FTP site and download what I want. I don't bother
> trying get stuff from WEB pages if I can get access to the FTP sites.

I think Lizard, the Caldera installer, isn't detecting my scsi card.  It
seems to hang before much gets started.  Basically, after Lizard starts,
it can't find a place to install from.

> As far as installing OpenLinux, you are probably doing something wrong. Have
> you describe the problem and where it hangs. Most of the time it's simply
> LILO that hangs and you did not install something correctly or LILO need
> more information to boot. For example, my Sound Blaster card's SCSI
> controller does not have a ROM, so when LILO pops up I had to tell it how to
> find the controller. I could also tell LILO what the parameters were and to
> remember them so I did not have to tell it the information each time I
> booted to Linux.

Okay , please do not tell me that.  I did look through the manual, and
it Lizard crashes before the manual covers much.

> RTFM.
 
Well, a year maybe.  

> you must be a little behind time. Quite some time ago SCO revamped their
> kernel to work with Linux apps. They were losing business because people
> wanted the Linux packages. So they were more or less forced to make this
> move or go out of business. they have had what is called the LKP kernel for
> some time now. LKP stands for Linux Kernel Properties!

That was what I was reading in Usenet, that Linux was good, but still
wasn't as heavy a hitter as SCO..... given sufficient hardware that is. 
Linux would run as well, or better on lesser hardware, but after if
given high end (current, high end) hardware SCO would smoke Linux.  
 
>As far as flaws go, I think you had better check that out. It is just the
>opposite. Most experts will tell you that Linux is much more stable.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA