--- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth > Scharf was heard to say: > > They said that the beta of their linux distro will > be > > available for public download by the end of > October. > > Hm. Do you have any information about the > following issues: > > -> How big is it? The only spare partition I > could try this out on is an > old swap partition (currently used for Hurd, but > I don't have time to > fiddle with that at the moment..). If corel is > going to shovel tons of > stuff (eg, X and KDE) onto my disk, I doubt I > can even try it. > -> How 'nice' is it? If it's a <6 minute install, > I doubt it really gives > you options about what to do. I don't need it > clobbering my Windows > installation -- or, worse, my current Linux > installation! More annoying > would be if it decided that it was going to > install LILO for me (I use > GRUB to boot) > I would guess that it's at least as big as a minimal install of Mandrake. They won't be including as many aps as debian has, they will probably 'farm' the debian selection for the most popular ones.
Also they mentioned that their install process is to install first and configure later. This means that the user does not need to worry about things like network addresses when first getting the os on the computer. Only once linux is up and running and you can actually log in do you set up networking, mail and such. (Of course if you are installing OVER a network in an enterprise setup this changes things a litte....) > I'd like to at least take a look at this and see > what they fixed (I seem to > remember hearing that they eliminated the horrible > flat organization we use for > packages and put in some sort of logical hierarchy) > but I can't conjure up disk > space or risk my current installations.. > They did mention that their installer understood package hierarchy but I only saw a static snapshot of a current install of packages. They did not demo the actual install of any packages. However the display did look better than glint or gnorpm, with a better user interface. It also looked much better than dselect (but then again dselect is rather long in the tooth.) > > 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. > > Are you sure? Wine is not only a > binary-compatibility system; it also aims > for source-compatibility. They might just be using > the Windows version as the > canonical source. > I understood wine as being a library that intercepted win32 calls and redirected those calls into the correct X or linux libraries for handling. Corel intends (as I understand it) to ship the actual windows binaries (.exes) and maybe even .dll's with whatever wrappers are required to run them under Wine. There will probably even be a Wine based program launcher that will trigger of an icon for the installed program on the desktop or 'K bar'. Wine's ultimate result is to make the win32 API become a linux api as well. It would stand beside gtk++ and QT in that regard. Also means that the "setup.exe" program that is used by all windows apps to install the thing would run under wine as well, only there would NOT be a real windows partition on your filesystem (though there would have to be a file system or directory pointed to by the wine.conf file to take it's place). Maybe I'm wrong about some of these points but's that's how I interperted it. ===== 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
