Corel Linux

Chris Midkiff cmidkiff at ladybaltimore.com
Mon Jan 10 22:53:23 CST 2000


No, They took WordPerfect out of the online version.  You can still
download it.  I'd imagine they took it out to reduce download size.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lowell Premer [SMTP:Lowell at kc.rr.com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 10, 2000 4:21 PM
> To:	kclug at kclug.org
> Subject:	Re: kclug - Corel Linux
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> 
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> >From: Chris Midkiff <cmidkiff at kc.rr.com>
> >To: kclug at kclug.org
> 
>  There are only 4
> >buttons on the pannel.  Corel's file manager (Very Explorer-ish,
> doubles as a
> >web browser, and auto-mounts cd's and fdd's), xconsole, a text
> editor, and help.
> 
>     Did you get a WordPerfect shortcut? I did, but I
> installed from a shrinkwrap package.
>     I share your complaints about Corel taking away
> necessary info during boot time, although I guess
> you can dmesg most of it.
>     I have one good thing to say about it, though;
> I put it on last on a test box that has many OS's
> on it, and several of them wouldn't boot right and
> otherwise offered difficulties. Corel's boot mgr.,
> whatever it calls itself, lists them ALL, even BeOS,
> and will let you take your time choosing which on you
> want to launch from an itemized list on top of that
> startup splash you mentioned. That's a good feature,IMO.
> 
> RSVP  
> 
> Lowell
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