On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Charles Lewis wrote: lewisc >Anyone know what kind of effect corel is having on debian? Is their distro lewisc >debian or not? What are the major differences? Corel apparently touts a 3 lewisc >step, user friendly installation. Does this mean that debian itself will lewisc >also reflect the work Corel has done?
I was a beta tester for beta 2 ..and downloaded and attempted install of the final on 2 machines here. the distro is debian with lots of updated stuff it seems(think its running the latest XF86) its based on slink(glibc 2.0.7) the installation will prob not be part of debian anytime soon..i doubt corel is up to releasing it as GPL. chances are low that a non free installer(even if its released free if its license is not debian compadible) will not be incnluded in debian. i much prefer being able to install on a text based OR a graphics based system. corel does not appear to offer this ability. on the first system i tried the final on (Winbond graphics) the X installer booted up, X loaded..then it shutdown and rebooted..i let it try 3-4 times but gave up after..i installed it on a vmware virtual machine and it installed ok but wouldnt boot into X in SVGA due to it not having the vmware svga driver(not a problem to get tho) im gonna try it on my k6-2 366 with riva tnt and see how it goes. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:58pm up 90 days, 2:32, 1 user, load average: 1.49, 1.49, 1.50
