Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:25:58 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: evanc@synapse.net (Evan Champion) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Caldera Network Desktop Message-ID: <199506240625.XAA03525@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:36:39 EDT." <199506240336.XAA03960@sentinel.synapse.net>
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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
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