[NTLUG:Discuss] July 17 - Caldera - Dallas program

[Mark Bickel]

> From discuss-admin at ntlug.org Tue Jun 12 12:45 CDT 2001
> From: cbbrowne at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] July 17 - Caldera - Dallas program
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:44:08 -0500 (CDT)

Chris Browne wrote:
> Mark Bickel wrote:
> > Caldera - they've annoyed me enough that I'm probably going to switch.
> > SuSe anyone?
> 
> Unfortunately, SuSE has headed to the "installable images only available
> when you buy a boxed set" approach.
> 
> On the one hand, this may be partly the result of having _SO_ much stuff
> that they pretty much need to release DVDs, CD-ROMs being too small to
> cope with it.  On the other hand, it looks like you'll not be seeing
> LinuxCentral SuSE 7.1 CDs any time soon.
> 
> "Evil" though the GCC 2.96 issue may be, it looks as though RHAT and
> Mandrake may be the only RPM-based choices, with Debian remaining the
> "definitely staying libre" option.

And <shudder> slackware ...

/mb