civileme wrote: >On Sunday 30 September 2001 21:26, Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > >>I guess I should have said something sooner - got busy and forgot. 8.1 >>is a dream; everything works unbelieveably well! I'm saving my pennies >>to buy prosuite as soon as it's available! >> >>I have one suggestion that I miss from 7.xx releases (hopefully will be >>included in future?) During install when you're selecting partition >>sizes, you no longer have the ability to just type in the size you want >>or some kind of fine tune adjustment at least; there's only the one >>slider bar and it's not very sensitive. For example; when choosing the >>size of my /boot partition, I could choose between 7M or 61M, but I >>couldn't seem to get anything in-between that. I would have liked to >>set it at 15M for future possibilities, but as much as I worked with my >>mouse on that slider bar, I couldn't get it! >> >>I know that's pretty small, but I've got to say, that's the only thing >>about the entire distro that I've found even slightly problematic... >> Great job guys!!! >> >>One other thing, could someone point me to a page that would list >>EVERYTHING that will be included in the prosuite pack? >> >>tia, Mike >> > >All the free software which we didn't prove had problems (yes some is on the >commercial CDs). Quite a lot of business programs including multi-station >accounting with real invoices and general ledger and time billing and even a >web store which posts to the sales journal, most of the Software Offeed by >TheKompany, and various server-oriented products. StarOffice now will >support S3 Savage, and you will see more new software than old. CD9 has >wizards that set up servers with just a couple of questions each. > >If you are into programming, XBasic has joined the ranks, complete with >drag-n-drop to build graphical grids and instant translation to functions. >Superficially resembling Visual basic, and running on X and on Windows, it is >actually powerful enough that the compiler is written in itself. It was one >of the packages that fell on a commercial CD though it is GPL with LGPL >libraries, but don't worry. We surrounded it with a wreath of garlic and >wolfsbane to keep away evil spirits.-) > >All the new games are on the free software, though. Stay tuned for some >surprises. > >Civileme > > Cool!!!
Mike
