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- Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 Release Notes
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- Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 contains many new features to make
- your Linux experience even better. More video cards than ever are now
- supported due to the integration of XFree86 3.3.4. OpenLinux 2.3 also
- includes enhanced frame buffer support.
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- Lizard, Caldera Systems' Linux Installation Wizard, has been
- dramatically improved. Lizard now detects many more video cards than
- before. With this added video card support, you are almost guaranteed
- to have your video card auto-detected, making installation even
- easier. Also, Lizard now detects many sound cards so that both video
- and audio are automatically configured without any user intervention.
- Additionally, if you change video cards in your system, you can now
- run Lizard after the installation to reconfigure the new video
- options. A new option to configure the LILO boot manager has been
- added to give you even more control over your system.
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- The installation now offers five pre-configured Workstation and
- Server configurations, including Web Server, Business Workstation, and
- Development Workstation. You can also create your own custom
- configurations to fit your needs. Along with the custom configuration
- option, the new Linux Unattended Installation provides the ability
- to have completely non-interactive, script-based installs. The Unattended
- Install, along with the ability to run Lizard remotely, makes network
- administration easier than ever.
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- In order to protect the data on your hard drive and simplify the
- installation of OpenLinux, a new version of Partition Magic CE
- (Caldera Edition) has been provided by PowerQuest. This upgraded
- version now includes support for hard drives larger than 8 GB. Also,
- the commercial backup and restore utility BRU is integrated into the
- KDE desktop. The added performance of the robust 2.2.10 Linux kernel
- is included.
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- OpenLinux 2.3 is now the foundation for business desktop
- productivity. With the inclusion of ApplixWare Office Suite 4.4.2,
- StarOffice 5.1, and WordPerfect 8.0, your office can easily share
- documents between employees who use Linux, MacOS, or Windows. The
- development environment of ApplixWare SHELF is included which allows
- you to easily build cross-platform visual applications in ELF. This
- also allows for significant customization of the ApplixWare Office
- suite. Video and audio conferencing tools are included. The award
- winning KDE 1.1.1 provides a powerful, yet simple, GUI for Linux. Many
- KDE 1.1.1 themes, along with a sneak preview of the latest development
- version of KDE 2.0, are also in the contrib section of the CD.
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- New RAID support for IBM ServeRAID, Compaq Smart2 RAID, and Mylex
- RAID has been added so that OpenLinux can be deployed anywhere -- from
- a small business to the enterprise. System configuration and
- administration is simplified by COAS 1.1, which is integrated with the
- KDE desktop environment. For programmers who want to assist in the
- development of KDE, Qt 2.0 is included, along with the KDE development
- libraries, example code, tutorials, and OpenGL extensions. The
- compiling libraries and localization data of Glibc version 2.1.1 are
- included.
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- For those who also want to try running some Windows 95/98 programs
- natively under Linux, WINE, an alternative Windows implementation, is
- included. All of this, plus the source code for all non-commercial
- packages, is included on three CD's.
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