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

["Jim Vetor" <jvetor1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use Mandrake and have used the last three versions with very good luck. I
see those who have had trouble and each time I did not have any of the
trouble they were talking about..

It is one of the easiest distros I have tried to install and it has always
been very good at finding most of my hardware and setting it up. 7.2 was the
best setting up everything I have in my system except my USB Microtek
Scanmaker 3600 scanner.

I'm not sure where you live or where you are getting your copies but If you
are around the Wichita area I would be more then glad to burn you a copy of
Mandrake 7.2 if you would like to try it out. Many have recomended Mandrake
as the one for newbies to try out.

Good luck, I can be contacted at jvetor1@xxxxxxxxxxx.

Jim Vetor
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Bachman <mbachman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:57 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Where's messages on Corel/Debian


>
> 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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