Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls
On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages
> hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was
> HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs was present :) [2]
That was my biggest gripe too. :-) I also was so shocked when
I thought I would encounter Emacs and then I had to download
it... :-(
But they also had some security problems with packages like
dosemu... Some of these problems were reported to Bugtraq and
didn't appear to affect Debian, only Corel Linux.
Nevertheless, it is a great attempt of putting Linux in a
Desktop and I would recommend it and install it for a few
friends (doing my part in the community) if it were a bit more
recent, with newer libs.
A problem that some may notice is that a simple apt-get to
potato will uninstall lots of corel packages, including their
nice KDE. :-( Altough I could install Helixcode's Gnome. But
then, what would be the point of installing Corel Linux in the
first place?
[]s, Roger...
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