I got a chance to see a demo of Corel's linux at the Miami Comdex yesterday. They have done a very good job of putting this together and from the looks of this Bill has good reason to fear loosing the desktop!
They didn't demo their installer, but were bragging that it would install Linux in under 6 minutes on the average PC. They did a good job of intergrating Linuxconf into debian, and their graphical front end around apt looks great. I hope this piece of code is GPL'ed, and that debian will steal (borrow) from it. They have made some improvements to the KDE desktop, some of which look rather gnomeish. They plan to port their Wordperfect office suite to Linux via wine, which implies that they are doing some heavyweight work on Wine. This probably means that MS office will also end up on many linux desktops though! They said that the beta of their linux distro will be available for public download by the end of October. I hope some shovelware cd makers will burn their beta onto cdr and sell it for those of us without T1 lines. If they put it up as an ISO image I will try to grab the file from the office on an overnight download. Oh BTW they were also giving away copies of Wordperfect for linux, personal edition (CD only). Wordperfect is the only app they have ported as a Native linux binary, and after version 8, they probably won't be doing a linux native binary version. So WP version 9 will be a win32 binary under Wine. ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
