Corel LINUX OS

[Joseph Hoot]

I installed the iso that I downloaded from Corel and it worked fine.  I was
infact quite pleased with the modifications that they made to KDE.  The
network configuration, the new pager included inside of the kpanel and the
File explorer all made it very pleasing to use KDE.   I deleted it right
away because of the lack of source code (kernel source and developer tools
that, in my opinion, are a must... you know.. compilers and such).  But all
in all, for a simple user workstation distro, I thought it was very good.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis J. Eberl" <dje at pcom.net>
To: "NFLUG Mailing List" <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 11:50 PM
Subject: Corel LINUX OS


> 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
>