Kernel Version: - Irrelevant
KDE Included: - Possibly
KDE2 Included: - Possibly
Gnome Included: - Apparently not
XF86 version: - Irrelevant
Installation:
I downloaded and burned Redmond to CD.
Firstly, I’d better say that I tested Redmond on a Laptop. It was a Dell Latitude with a Mobile Pentium II 366 and 128meg RAM. The sound and graphics were Neomagic 256.
I booted into Caldera based Redmond from the CD into its pretty graphical installation.
Redmond detected that that machine had PCMCIA and tried to detect SCSI, Network Card (But not my 3com 589 PCMCIA Network Card, THE most standard card on the planet). It also detected the installation medium and the mouse. Redmond only supports an English installation at present.
There are prompts to configure the mouse, keyboard, video card etc. although the X-display test hangs the machine (with all the correct settings. Press ctrl+alt+backspace to recover…).
You can tell Redmond either to use the whole hard disk or repartition it manually. You have no option other than a full installation so make sure you have plenty of space…
There are then prompts to configure the network, modem (only 1 PCMCIA modem is supported – it isn’t mine) and printer (there is no option to set up a network SMB/Windows printer).
One feature that I’m sure all the other distros will copy is the ability to play Mahjong while Redmond is installing (you won’t finish the game before it finishes installing - but it does allow you to finish before you continue!).
I was then informed that the installation had failed (and wasn’t given a reason).
With the installation finished(?) I rebooted into GRUB and started my new system…or so I thought. The system started to boot then stopped half way through….I was left with an error saying something that would make no sense to anyone. When I tried to reboot using Ctrl+Alt+Del I got the message ‘You don’t exist. Go away.’. Oh dear.
Software Content:
While Redmond was installing I saw that it came with Samba, KDE (couldn’t tell which version) and supported Automount and USB Hotplugging. I was unable to tell what other software was included or what versions as I couldn’t get into the system to see!
Conclusion:
I did try reinstalling again to see if it made any difference – it didn’t. It is possible that all this is because I tried to use it on a laptop but it’s unlikely….