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Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the swirling-maelstrom dept.

Patrick Mullen writes: "The Duke of URL has just posted its review of Caldera's OpenLinux Workstation 3.1. Caldera is probably best known for going against the grain in the Linux world and is the first Linux distribution to introduce per seat licensing. Version 3.1 has made a lot of advances such as full OEM testing, but is it worth the per-seat licensing?" Is this any different from other distributions' "power packs," which bundle Free software with proprietary? According to the Caldera site, you can download the ISOs as well as the source to the server and workstation varieties of Open Linux on a (eh?) "single, non-commercial license."

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  1. Duh! by cavemanf16 · · Score: 2, Funny
    According to the Caldera site, you can download the ISOs as well as the source to the server and workstation varieties of Open Linux on a (eh?) "single, non-commercial license."

    I get it! They're just being innovative so that they can generate more banner ad views when each user has to burn 1.5megs of bandwidth visiting Caldera's website 3 times in a row to download three sets of ISO's instead of just one for use on those 3 junk computers they have sitting around the house. Now that's +1 Insightful on Caldera's behalf!

  2. Re:Targetted at corporates, NOT YOU! by TheReverand · · Score: 3, Funny
    Interesting.

    I run a P166 (not even an MMX mind you) and it runs win2k pro just fine. Ok, IE 6 takes 2.5 seconds to start, and my boot time is horrendous (like 1.5 minutes) but the box is so stable I've had to reboot twice in the last year. Not bad for working on the thing 12 hours a day.