Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 vs Redhat

[Victor Odhner]

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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