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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Lanny Baron <lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org>, cjclark@home.com, ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907142005090.282-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990714205455.14161V-100000@geeky1.ebtech.net>

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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Paul Anderson wrote:

> Sorry, but, you're just plain wrong.  RedHat *DOES* include KDE and Qt,

RH has only included and supported KDE/Qt in 6.0; and it did that very
grudgingly.

> Caldera uses RPM just like RedHat, the text configuration files are almost
> *EXACTLY* the same,

SuSE also uses RPM.  But RPMs for SuSE wouldn't be guaranteed to work on
RH and Caldera.  There are enough subtle file system layout differences
that RPMs are intentionally built for a specific distribution.  At one
time; there were PAM related bugs that tended to affect only RH because it
was the only distro that used PAM.  They are different, period.  It's more
than skin deep.

A package designed for the official FreeBSD will also work on a CheapBytes
system.

> the only real difference is in commercial products included with the
> distribution and the GUI config tools.  TTYL!

Caldera also includes a graphical installer (Lizard).  RH OTOH has a text
based one as well as DiskDruid or whatever it's called.  CheapBytes and
the "official" distribution have the same installer.

- alex



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