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By 1994, under CEO [[Ray Noorda]]'s purview, [[Novell Corsair]] was a project run by Novell's advanced technology group that sought to put together a [[desktop metaphor]] with [[Internet connectivity]] and toward that end conducted research on how to better and more easily integrate and manage network access for users. At the time, the Internet was dominated by Unix-based operating systems, but the Novell group saw the Unixes of the day as being too hardware intensive, too large, and charging too much in license fees. They became convinced that [[Linux]] offered the best possible answer for the operating system component, and started building code towards that purpose, including contributing work on [[IPX]] networking for NetWare and [[Wine (software)|Wine]] compatibility layer for Windows. However, Noorda departed from Novell and under new management, the Linux role in Corsair was dropped.<ref name="LJ_1995">{{cite news |url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1094 |title=Caldera and Corsair – Who is Caldera, and what is Corsair, really? |date=June 1995 |magazine=Linux Journal |access-date=2008-09-24}}</ref>
[[Caldera, Inc.]] was founded in 1994 by [[Bryan Wayne Sparks]] and Ransom H. Love and received start-up funding from Noorda's Utah-focused [[Canopy Group]], and Caldera became one of the first commercial companies putting out a [[Linux distribution]].<ref name="eweek-ransom-2003">{{cite news |url=https://www.eweek.com/servers/ransom-love-co-founder-of-caldera-and-sco-speaks-of-unix-gpl-and-the-lawsuit |title=Ransom Love, Co-founder of Caldera and SCO, Speaks of Unix, GPL and the Lawsuit |author-first=Steven J. |author-last=Vaughan-Nichols |magazine=[[eWeek]] |date=September 25, 2003}}</ref> That first distribution was [[Caldera Network Desktop]], which was based on [[Red Hat Commercial Linux]].<ref name="Petreley_1996_Caldera">{{cite news |title=Down to the Wire - Hot Caldera rates a look as an Internet service, maybe even for desktops |author-first=Nicholas |author-last=Petreley |magazine=InfoWorld |date=1996-02-19 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA108 |access-date=2017-06-25}}</ref><ref name="Hughes_1996_CND"/> It seemed primarily aimed at the office desktop and custom solutions markets.<ref name="Hughes_1996_CND">{{cite news |title=Caldera Network Desktop 1.0 |author-first=Phil |author-last=Hughes |date=June 1996 |issue=26 |magazine=Linux Journal |url=https://nnc3.com/mags/LJ_1994-2014/LJ/026/0117.html |access-date=2018-08-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180805090434/https://nnc3.com/mags/LJ_1994-2014/LJ/026/0117.html |archive-date=2018-08-05}}</ref>
One of the features of Caldera Network Desktop was an installation component called LISA (Linux Installation and System Administration),<ref name="Hughes_1996_CND"/> which had been developed with the Germany-based [[Linux Support Team]] (LST).<ref name="LST_1997">{{cite news |title=LST Software GmbH Merges With Caldera Inc. – Critically acclaimed European Linux developers strengthen Caldera's commitment |agency=[[PR Newswire]] |date=1997-05-23 |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LST+Software+GmbH+Merges+With+Caldera+Inc.-a019440952 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913050017/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LST+Software+GmbH+Merges+With+Caldera+Inc.-a019440952 |archive-date=2012-09-13 |access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref> In terms of Linux distributions, that group was responsible for [[LST Power Linux]], a [[Slackware]]-derived distribution that had been maintained by LST since its first incarnation in 1993.<ref name="LST_2003">{{cite web |title=Historie |language=de |date=2018 |orig-year=2001 |publisher=LST - Verein zur Förderung freier Software e.V. |url=http://www.lst.de/de/main.php?id=02 |access-date=2018-08-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804152549/http://www.lst.de/de/main.php?id=02 |archive-date=2018-08-04}}</ref> Caldera Network Desktop ended sales in March 1997.<ref name="LG_1997"/>
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[[OpenLinux 2.2]], released in April 1999, was seen as significantly improved from the previous year's [[OpenLinux 1.3|1.3]] release, especially in terms of it having a fully graphical and easy-to-use installation feature.<ref name="itpro">{{cite news |url=https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-8/red-hat-caldera-release-new-versions-linux |title=Red Hat, Caldera release new versions of Linux |author-first=Paul |author-last=Thurrott |publisher=ITPro Today |date=April 25, 1999}} (See also: [https://www.linux.co.cr/distributions/review/1999/0514.html])</ref>
Ease of installation was an important criteria in selecting a Linux distribution,<ref name="cnbc-ipo">{{cite news |url=http://plotkin.com/cnbcs113/ |title=Caldera Systems IPO Soars in Debut |author-first=Hal |author-last=Plotkin |publisher=CNBC |date=March 21, 2000}}</ref> and Caldera Deutschland had created this first fully graphical installer for Linux, called Lizard, starting in November 1998.<ref name="Lizard">{{cite web |url=http://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/linux/openlinux-lizard |title=The Openlinux Lizard |website=rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no |access-date=September 21, 2017}}</ref> Several years later it was still receiving praise from reviewers.<ref name="lw-vms">{{cite news |url=http://linux.sys-con.com/node/32708 |title=Volution shows promise |author-first=Joshua |author-last=Drake |work=LinuxWorld |date=January 14, 2002 |access-date=2019-11-17 |archive-date=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405195658/http://linux.sys-con.com/node/32708 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The installer could even be started from a [[Microsoft Windows]] partition.<ref name="itpro"/>
The improvements provided by the Lizard installer led to the technology publication ''[[Linux Journal]]'' giving Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 its top award, Product of the Year.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3730 | title=1999 Editors' Choice Awards | first=Jason | last=Kroll | magazine=Linux Journal | date=December 1999}}</ref>
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* ''Caldera OpenLinux Lite/Base/Standard 1.1'' (September 1997) with Linux kernel 2.0.29<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2435 | title=New Products | first=Amy | last=Kukuk | magazine=Linux Journal | date=September 1997}}</ref>
* ''Caldera OpenLinux Lite/Base/Standard 1.2'' (1998-04-17)
* ''Caldera Systems OpenLinux Lite/Base 1.3'' (1998-09-28) with Linux kernel 2.0.35<ref name="CalderaSystems_OL13">{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/caldera-systems-inc-releases-openlinux-13-with-kde-and-sybase-ase-156356425.html |title=CALDERA SYSTEMS INC. RELEASES OPENLINUX 1.3 WITH KDE AND SYBASE ASE |website=www.prnewswire.co.uk |access-date=2017-09-21}}</ref>
* ''Caldera Systems OpenLinux 1.4''? (there are some mentionings in the net, but in such a low number, that it is unclear, if this version was actually released ... and not sure if 2.0 and 2.1 existed at all)
* ''Caldera Systems OpenLinux 2.2'' (1999-04-19) with Linux kernel 2.2.xx
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