Linked by Gianmario Scotti on Sun 29th Sep 2002 18:14 UTC
First of all, why is SCO in braces, you'll ask. The reason is, I have not seen anything in this linux distribution that sounds or smells like Caldera/SCO, even though I downloaded it through SCO's UnitedLinux beta tester website. I will mostly focus on the installation (as I am a UNIX installation developer in "real life"), but I will also discuss more parts of the UnitedLinux distribution. For more screenshots of UnitedLinux and its installation procedure, go here.
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You bring up a valid point and in principle I agree with you. I would agree even more if these were usability issues, but they are bugs, and the netcard bug is rather serious which I am confident will be solved.
I defninitely would urge anyone who buys UL to arm him/herself with a solid support contract. As I said, all services, except ssh and XDM are off by default, and yast does not, at least in this incarnation, allow for easy administration of them. So unless you know what you are doing you migh be stuck with a Linux box that does almost nothing.
Just a quick tip for those who downloaded UL and installed it: if you want to enable Telnet, you have to edit /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment the line with the telnet daemon, and then run inetd to read in the new changes. No need to edit /etc/services, because it's OK, generally speaking.
Same goes for the other services, but remember that FTP and Apache need serious configging.
Another tip about Telnet: you can't telnet as root even after you did the above procedure, you must either create a non-root user for ths purpose or you can rename /etc/securetty - something that good admins don't do, except when noone is watching ;o)