Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 vs Redhat

[Joseph T. Tannenbaum]

Caldera and RedHat are very simular.  They both use rpm
and Linuxconf.  They also both use kde as a desktop.  I
believe there is some partnering between them.

There is no upgrade.  Redhat rpm will do an upgrade on a
previous rpm system, but I've found that none of the config
is kept.  I backed up the /etc, /sbin, and /home at a minimum
before I redid or upgraded.

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Victor
> Odhner
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:02 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 vs Redhat
>
>
> So, what you're saying here is that there's no non-destructive way
> to upgrade a new distribution?
>
> Since nobody answered my troll a couple of weeks ago about relative
> merits of various distributions, I downloaded a new RH system and am
> preparing to overwrite my two-year-old SUSE setup.
>
> I TGZ'd my home directory and a few other things of interest and
> saved 'em to my Win98 partition, figuring I don't have anything else
> to hold onto anyway.
>
> But don't these Linux distros have any sort of an 'upgrade' and/or
> 'competitive upgrade' option?  I've heard advice to avoid Microsoft
> upgrades when possible due to accumulations of junk in the registry.
> But I'd think one could build a Linux installer a little smarter,
> since Linux apps aren't so mystically entwined with the system.
>
> I am having second thoughts about RH with the recent raves about
> Caldera.  I have a plug'n'play 10/100 network card (D-Link installed
> by Cox@Home), Creative SoundBlaster 16, and Creative ModemBlaster
> V90 modem.  If there's a distro that gives better odds for a PnP
> setup, I could be sold on it.  I notice Yggdrasil (sp?) also boasts
> about strong PnP performance.
>
> Vic
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Kevin Buettner wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:44:19 -0700
> > From: Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com>
> > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 vs Redhat
> >
> > On Apr 12,  9:47am, Charles  Lubin wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to install Caldera 2.4 over RH, my question is;
> Can I do just
> > > that, install Caldera over RH, or do I need to remove RH
> before installing
> > > the new OS, and should that be the case how do I remove RH?
> >
> > There's no need to remove the current OS.  When you do your new install,
> > just have it make a new file system on the partitions that you want
> > to overwrite.  (Remaking the filesystem will effectively erase the old
> > OS.)
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Buettner
> > kev@primenet.com, kevinb@redhat.com
> >
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