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

["Jeremy King" <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been trying to install it on a celeron 333 (or 300?) with 128 mb ram.
If hardware is the problem I'll eat my shorts.  When I originally posted, I
had plenty of disk space, but in the interim I've downloaded the install
files for redhat 6.2. which ate up most of my free Linux partion (and took
roughly the advertised 27 hrs at 56k, spread over three nights).  So now
I've tried installing it on corel (both the full and minimal installs) and
on redhat 6.2 (minimal install only).  I've struck out on three tries with
the office suite, and the linux distribution makes Win98 look stable, so it
looks like all I'm getting for my money is a cute little plush penguin.
Ouch.

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: James <pantherace13@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 8:31 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will it work?


> 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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