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

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Marc Bachman
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> 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?

It looks like I may have been premature in pronouncing Corel as 'dead'. I
went back through my mail and re-read the items on Corel.  Corel has
significantly cut back their workforce that works on Linux and has announced
that they intend to sell off the Linux Division.  They have stated that they
wish to return to their 'core business' and to stop trying to 'compete with
Microsoft'.  To me, that says that Corel Linux's days are numbered.

As for KDE, it's a windowing manager, one of many.  As of version 2.x, I
think KDE is a quite nice window enviroment, albeit a bit of a resource hog.
If you could run Windows98, then you have enough hardware to run KDE 2.x.  I
can show KDE to friends that know nothing about Linux, and they feel right
home.  Lighter weight window managers like Windowmaker (my default manager)
are much less intuitive. GNOME seems to be improving, but so far isn't in my
top two choices.

Your choice of distribution will depend what level of 'hand holding' you
prefer.  They are, from difficult to easy (IMO), Slackware - Debian -
RedHat - Mandrake.  I'm not sure where SuSE fits in, probably the same as
RedHat.

--dwh

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Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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