Slackware is oudated? Well, for one, that's wrong, and obviously Slack is doing something right, as it is the 3rd most popular distribution behind Red Hat and Debian. The old you refer to is probably Slack still being based on Libc5. However, Libc5 is rock solid stable.
I personally believe that Caldera making a user-friendly Linux distro is a good idea, because it makes Linux accessible to more users. However, just a fancy GUI won't be enough. What is needed is applications.
Yes, it brings StarOffice and WordPerfect. Guess what... users of other Operating Systems will have no idea what Star Office is, and while WordPerfect has a following, mainstream users don't use it much. People want THEIR apps, such as Quicken, Word, and (haha) Internet Explorer. They already know how to use those, and they don't want to change. COL could have a CLI, but as long as users could type in commands like "Quicken", "Word", or "Internet Explorer", they'll be happy. Of course, a nice GUI would help, but apps are needed. Maybe when these apps are exactly cloned or the manufacturer ports them, Linux will be excellent for newbies. But for now, servers and the computing elite will mainly be the users of Linux.
Armando Rojas - Member of SALOS Society for the Advancement of the Linux Operating System
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Slackware is oudated? Well, for one, that's wrong, and obviously Slack is doing something right, as it is the 3rd most popular distribution behind Red Hat and Debian. The old you refer to is probably Slack still being based on Libc5. However, Libc5 is rock solid stable.
I personally believe that Caldera making a user-friendly Linux distro is a good idea, because it makes Linux accessible to more users. However, just a fancy GUI won't be enough. What is needed is applications.
Yes, it brings StarOffice and WordPerfect. Guess what... users of other Operating Systems will have no idea what Star Office is, and while WordPerfect has a following, mainstream users don't use it much. People want THEIR apps, such as Quicken, Word, and (haha) Internet Explorer. They already know how to use those, and they don't want to change. COL could have a CLI, but as long as users could type in commands like "Quicken", "Word", or "Internet Explorer", they'll be happy. Of course, a nice GUI would help, but apps are needed. Maybe when these apps are exactly cloned or the manufacturer ports them, Linux will be excellent for newbies. But for now, servers and the computing elite will mainly be the users of Linux.
Armando Rojas - Member of SALOS
Society for the Advancement of the Linux Operating System