Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-07 Thread Cam Ellison
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:04:01 -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: >On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: >> One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages >> hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was >> HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs wa

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-07 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages > > hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was > > HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs was present :

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages > hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was > HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs was present :) [2] That was my biggest gripe too. :-)

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
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 C

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
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]. It seemed to me a debian system, with a little GUI gloss added on top of it. E.g., iirc, it had a GUI package manager that had much of the same functionality as

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-05 Thread Warren A. Layton
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 06:17:09PM -0700, Jeff Roediger wrote: > Hi all > > Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux? > I have just obtained a copy and don't know much about it. I have been > using freeBSD and Slack for a desktop only box. > It appears to be targeted at peopl

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-05 Thread Marko Cehaja
Why Corel when you have Debian? Corel is based on Debian, but not at all good like it. > Hi all > > Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux? > Marko

Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-05 Thread Jeff Roediger
Hi all Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux? I have just obtained a copy and don't know much about it. I have been using freeBSD and Slack for a desktop only box. It appears to be targeted at people like me, who only have one system as a desktop unit. TIA, Jeff