“As good as the installation programs in various Linux
distributions have become lately, this incarnation of eDesktop’s
Lizard is still notable. Unlike the one in Caldera OpenLinux 2.3,
this version properly set up Linux on an IBM ThinkPad 1452 to use
its built-in sound chip and completely power down the system after
a shutdown. The installation still handles converting a Windows
system into a dual-boot Windows/Linux system.”
“A full installation on our ThinkPad system took 1.3 GB of drive
space but included: development tools; an autoplay music-CD applet;
Sun’s Java Development Kit 1.2.2; Netscape Communicator 4.72; a
PalmPilot-synchronizing application; several text editors including
the popular nedit; and numerous graphics programs like GIMP 1.1.3.
That 1.3 GB doesn’t include the commercial programs in the package,
such as StarOffice 5.1A, PerfectBackup+ 6.2, and Applixware
4.4.2.”
“The most important eDesktop feature from a system
administrator’s viewpoint is Webmin, an open source, browser-based
system-administration tool that Caldera developed and used first on
its eServer product. Webmin makes it easy to control almost
any configuration detail of either a local or a remote system.”