[linux-help] Re: Where's messages on Corel/Debian

[Marc Bachman <mbachman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Dale- As someone who has been struggling with Corel Debian and the Wine
apps that came with it I am very interested in your opinion and the sources of
your information. I am a newbie and it looks like I made about the worst
possible choice for an initial Linux investment. If , indeed Corel is getting
out of the Linux business ( I wonder if they ever intended to stay) it looks
like I should go get a good distro and start over, especilly if what I have
cannot be upgraded with Debian. Do you know if any of their apps work on
another distro? I was checking out KDE 2.x and it looks like there are a lot
of bugs to contend with. Would you recommend KDE to a newbie?

Dale W Hodge wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Greg House
>
> > That's strange, I told him to look for /var/log/messages and he said it
> > wasn't there. In fact, I had him do a find from /var looking for
> > it and there
> > wasn't a file called messages under there. Guess I should have
> > him start at
> > /...
>
> They may not use messages, instead dumping everthing to syslog. Or
> considering the tweaking Corel did, it could be called something else
> altogether...
>
> > Is Corel really based on Debian?
>
> Yes, but they really just didn't 'get it' as Linux distribuition.  They
> mucked up much of what they did and violated GPL several times until the
> folks at Debian had a nice talk with them.  Corel Linux is a dead
> distribution, and can't be easily upgraded to Debian due to the extensive
> modifications Corel made.
>
> --dwh
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