[lug] Corel Linux

[Howell, Jeff S]

I have a Voodoo3, with both Slackware and RH come with an Xserver for.
Doesn't look like Corel does.

My complaint with the packagers is I was trying to reinstall specific
packages from the installation CD. As X was complaining about fonts, I
though I might try to reinstall them. The installation packages are in .deb
format. Thus if you don't know anything about debian, you're hosed.
Anyways, I have my Slackware back. I'm in my safe place now :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Young [mailto:ed.young at inver-exch1.echostar.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:30 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Corel Linux



I was a beta tester and ran both beta 1 and 2. I couldn't get the first
one to install and so have no info on, but beta 2 was unbelievably easy
to install. I put it on my CTX laptop. Everything worked with no
additional configuration or tweaking except sound. I can change between
DHCP and static IP on the fly or run PPP. The desktop is nice but not
too different from KDE as far as I can tell, however I'm only running
the beta 2 version so the final product may be tricked out. 

I'm not sure what you mean by there's nothing in place to install
packages unless you know Debian. Do you mean there's no RPM utilities or
Slackware utilities? If you don't know the package installation tools,
you can always compile from source. I installed Cygnus Codefusion by
running ./configure and then make install. No problem. 

I upgraded some libraries and associated stuff by using the Debian
system and had no problems at all. I upgraded gtk+ and libglib which can
realy break stuff if not done correctly. I didn't have to do anything
funky than update the Debian package database, and then install the new
packages. Exactly two commands. Nice. This was on the beta 2 version. 

Too bad you didn't get X running. I was pretty surprised that X came up
immediately on my Laptop which has always been a problem  with every
other distribution I've tried it on. (RH6.0 and Debian 2.1. )

Good luck, 

Ed





"Howell, Jeff S" wrote:
> 
> Anybody tried this out yet?
> I did last night and while the installation was pretty and easy. After
> the
> first reboot, it went chernobyl.
> X was really broken. I fought with it for an hour without getting even a
> failsafe desktop up. XF86Setup refused to run.
> when I manually specified XF86_VGA16 servers (or any other server) it
> complained that fonts were missing.
> There was nothing in place for manually installing packages if you're
> not
> familiar with Debian. I did notice a few things tho that corel did
> nicely.
> The boot manager was well done as well. It detected my Network card
> automatically and tried to come up in DHCP.
> I wish I could have seen the KDE enhancements they made. Oh Well.
> I eventually erased it and went back to my good old Slackware 7.
> 
> Jeff Howell
> EDS Unix Support
> PowerBak Administrator
> 
> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise
> would be a topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of
> psychology or marketing, not an article on information technology.
>   --John Kirsh  Kirsh Consulting.
>    http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/
> 
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