New Stuff, Corel File Manager, Linux Opera

[Evan Hoff]

ya..roberts at corel.com is the maintainer for the package
that the filemanager is in (kde_corel)...im still waiting for his 
reply on the license..in the mean time..i have corel's
kde desktop and filemanager running on my debian install..
i like it...reminds me a lot of explorer which isnt bad...
its a familiar interface. im hoping they didnt modify kde
too much...i tried just grabbing the libraries the f.m. depends on
and all that jazz and running it with the debian kde but
all it wanted to do was segfault..so..
all i can do is hope it was released under the gpl so
i can narf the source. Im gonna try to do a little more work to try
and figure out its problem..im not giving up yet :)

Evan Hoff
evanh23 at usa.net

Chris Midkiff <cmidkiff at kc.rr.com> wrote:
Did you track down the maintainer?  I've been looking... there is not a "Corel
File Manager" source tree listed anywhere. (or maybe I can't find it...) 
Which .deb contains it? There seems to be a lot of mods made to QT and KDE,
this may be more trouble than it's worth.  If it's gpl, shouldn't they post
the source back to freshmeat or some such?  The thing looks enough like KFM
that I'd be surprised if they didn't start with it as a base, and just
(heavily) modify it.

cmidkiff at kc.rr.com

-----Original Message-----
From:	Evan Hoff [SMTP:evanh23 at usa.net]
Sent:	Monday, January 17, 2000 11:26 AM
To:	kclug at kclug.org
Subject:	Re: [kclug - New Stuff, Corel File Manager, Linux Opera]

hmm...im curious as to why everyone likes
Corel Filemanager..so im in the process of 
contacting the maintainer to see what kinda
license it is distributed with..im thinking
of porting so that i (along with others can 
use it) it comes in a 24mb deb with a load
of other programs..so we'll see what happens.
hopefully it was released under the GPL
and not under some proprietary restrictive
garbage. in the mean time..im gonna try and 
hack together a working copy on my box.

---------------
Evan Hoff
evanh23 at usa.net

Chris Midkiff <cmidkiff at kc.rr.com> wrote:
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I installed Corel Linux on my test box. 
Everything went well, but it has some problems I'm not willing to live with
(or
spend the time to fix...) Corel's kernel is compiled without IPX support, and
I
run a novel network.  For some reason, corel's lilo won't boot a custom built
kernel, so I can't even build IPX in... Oh well, I DL'ed and loaded mandrake
7.0.  I'm sure gonna miss the Corel File Manager, though.  I can't find the
package or source for it anywhere.  If anyone finds a way to build Corel's
file
manager into another distro, please let me know.

Also:  Has anyone else tried Opera for Linux (alpha) yet?  Seems promising,
it's
fast as (heck).  Not fully implemented, nothing fancy yet.  I, for one, am
more
than willing to pay for good linux software.  Eventually, I'm sure one of the
open source browsers will get better, but I'm pretty sick of NetScape
crashing
on me.  Opera is worth a look.  There is not really any install or anything,
just unpack it, and it runs.

 --  
<insert silly little sig> Chris Midkiff
cmidkiff at kc.rr.com


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