Corel LINUX OS

[Samuel Morales Jr.]

I installed Corel from a CD I made from the iso. It
was an easy install but I didnt like it much. It was
too win9x-ish for my taste. I really am not a KDE guy
(WindowMaker 0wnz j00!!) and I didn't like how they
really try to hide the command line from you. If you
want an easier Debian I would recommend StormLinux,
it's a lot more flexible in my opinion (althought
Corel can obviously be delamerized).

~Sam


-- "Dennis J. Eberl" <dje at pcom.net> wrote:
> Has anyone else installed Corel LINUX OS from the
> diskettes we gave out? I had a
> heck of a time installing the full version on one of
> my machines (I had no luck
> at all trying to install the "Open Distribution"
> version that was handed out at
> the last meeting). Ron installed the "Open
> Distribution" version on one of his
> machines without trouble, but it didn't walk him
> through modem configuration and
> didn't find his sound card. We finally found that
> ppp_config is what you need to
> run to get pon/poff working (Debbie's way of
> bringing up/down a ppp dial-up
> connection to an ISP). We got sound running after we
> did a
> 
> ...$ inetd sb.o<Return>
> 
> Unfortunately, we forgot to put that fix into a
> config file . . . SO HELLO, RON,
> YOU WILL NOT HAVE SOUND WHEN YOU REBOOT . . . RON?
> HELLO? RON . . . ?
> 
> In all, to me, Corel LINUX has proven to be a royal
> pain in the ASCII, not the
> magic easy to install, user friendly package I had
> heard it to be. Is anyone
> else having better luck? Frankly, I'd much rather
> run straight Debian and KDE. I
> can't say I'm thrilled about Corel's modifications
> to KDE (especially their
> ridiculous pager) and their adding of another layer
> of obscurity between me and
> Debian, which is a really likable distribution (even
> though, being Blinky's
> keeper, I am a lunatic RedHat fan).
> 
> Any feedback regarding anyone else's experience with
> Corel LINUX would be
> welcome. I need to get some distance and more
> experience with the product before
> I write a review, which I am supposed to do in
> exchange for Corel's "gifts" to
> our LUG. Is this the usual practice by other
> distributors?
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 

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