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In my mind, I associate Caldera with that Linux distribution that was pretty OK, but nothing to write home about.
by sgt 4y ago
In my mind, I associate Caldera with that Linux distribution that was pretty OK, but nothing to write home about.
- jzb 4y agoCaldera’s big trick IIRC was its installer. You could play Tetris in the installer while it copied packages onto the hard drive. It was also a better installer for new users than a lot of others. I think the desktop experience was pretty polished for the time, too.
- sgt 4y agoThat's brilliant! I wish more installers did that.
- jasoneckert 4y agoThey also had Minesweeper too (I can't remember if it was a choice, or they had two distro flavors - one with Tetris and one with Minesweeper).
- dagw 4y agoCaldera, pre SCO, was actually pretty sold 'professional' desktop OS. A place I worked at used it and we had a bunch of developers and researchers with Windows backgrounds that were using Linux for the first time and they all found it a pretty smooth and polished desktop and development experience over all.