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>>> Evan Champion said:
 > Now, I know this isn't quite appropriate for the hackers list but I
 > think you'll see what I'm getting at in a little bit.
 > 
 > A company called Caldera has come out with yet another Linux
 > distribution.  This one is quite different, however.  Check out
 > <http://www.caldera.com/screen1.gif> to see what I mean.

 > The highlight of this product is called the Caldera Network Desktop. 
 > It is sort of a Mac-like, Windows-like, OS/2-like interface for Linux.
 >  It looks *really* hot and I think it will do great things for the
 > Linux community, which means it will do wonderful things for the UNIX
 > community in general if it is able to draw a few more people off of
 > Windows.
 > 
 > Now, when I as a guru look at FreeBSD, I know it is far and away
 > superior to Linux.  Being a BSD fanatic, I don't even want to go near
 > a Linux system.  I like BSD, I love FreeBSD.
 > 
 > The problem that I see is that when it comes to graphical interfaces,
 > FreeBSD isn't really as strong as Linux from what I have seen, and
 > certainly has nothing to go up against this Caldera offering.
 > 
 > My question would be would someone from Walnut Creek and/or the
 > FreeBSD gang be interested in shipping a copy of 2.0.5-RELEASE to
 > Caldera with a suggestion that while Linux is all well and good, BSD
 > is where it's at and FreeBSD is the platform to do it on.

I doubt that it will work . If memory does not failed me Caldera is 
faction which broke out Novell. Their project to bring out Linux as
a main stream os got canned and the group or a few of the members 
decided to break away from Novell and start their own company.

	*We do need cool apps*

	Amancio