On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:05:08AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > I think it's fine. > > My 1-month-old system came with CorelOS preinstalled. I used it for a > week until I changed it to "pure" debian [1].
I too has a similar experience: because slink won't install on my new Atlon, I installed Corel, which has a newer kernel, then morphed it in almost pure slink. I liked the graphical boot manager and kept it, until recently, when I scratched it installing the new Mandrake on my 'experimental' partition. I believe the Corel boot manager was based on lilo ( at least, it used lilo.conf as config file ) so I wonder if they released their changes. ( Thinking about it, it could be that they just used lilo as 'secont step' of the boot process, so the answer is probably 'no' :-( ) Anyway, I have one concern about using Corel now : it is based on Debian, but on Debian Slink, which is getting old. When updating to potato, the Corel packages will probably broke. Given the current finantial troubles that Corel is experiencing, I doubt we well see soon an upgrade of their distribution (but I hope to be wrong). -- FB