[aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will it work?

[James <pantherace13@xxxxxxxxx>]

What were you running it on? On my mom's laptop it has disk activity stops for a
while then starts the app and starts disk activity up again, but this is due to 
it
running (I think), on a P120 (Supposedly below required). I will check next 
time I
load it up.



Jeremy King wrote:


> I'm not sure what problem the above will solve, but it aint the problem I
> described.  In a nutshell, the install went just fine.  But when I ran any one
> of the WPO2000 apps, I got a little bit of disk activity followed by nothing.
> The system didn't crash, but the app refused to launch.  When I ran 'top'
> (actually, KDE's graphical equivalent) it showed that the wineserver process
> had a status of "zombie".  So, I'm guessing that the wine system that came 
> with
> the office suite doesn't like something about Corel's Linux distribution.
> That's the kind of behaviour that we've all come to expect from software 
> coming
> out of Redmond--and its the kind of thing that could give linux a bad name
> among the newbies who are lured in by Corel's brand name.  (Which some
> on this list would argue is immaterial, since linux isn't meant for them
> anyway).  I'll just have to go back to waiting for potato.  If mozilla could
> finally release a beta quality browser, I suppose that Debian will be able to
> finish potato, eventually...  I have to keep reminding myself of that story
> about the turtle and the hare, every time I think about Debian.  At least it's
> worth the wait.
>
> Jeremy
>
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