What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-18 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, A couple people here have mentioned that Corel Linux is a limited version of Debian with some enhancements added to it, including a different installer and KDE. Can anyone tell me what those things that were taken out might be? And if a new version of Debian comes out, will it be able to upgr

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: bart >a different installer and KDE. Can anyone tell me what those bart >things that were taken out might be? And if a new version of from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. i bet it had less then 150 packages(that were selecta

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-19 Thread Bart Szyszka
> from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because according to this page: http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm , Corel Linux is based on Debian 2.2. At their site I read something about their KDE

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: bart >> from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. bart >Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because bart >according to this page: bart >http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm something i found c

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-19 Thread Joey Hess
aphro wrote: > bart >, Corel Linux is based on Debian 2.2. At their site I read something > > 2.2? wow ..they went from slink to potato from beta 2 to final..unless i > read the package listing wrong i'll check it again i coulda swore it was > glibc2.0.7 Corel linux has less than 20 potato packag

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread lists
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:21:09PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. > Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because > according to this page: > http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm > > , Corel Lin

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:30:28PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:21:09PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. > > Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because > > according to this p

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Onno
"Don't fix it if it isn't broken" I hope you know what the implications of this can be... Regards, Onno

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Tom Pfeifer
aphro wrote: >, Corel Linux is based on Debian 2.2. > 2.2? wow ..they went from slink to potato from beta 2 to final..unless i > read the package listing wrong i'll check it again i coulda swore it was > glibc2.0.7 I think the point of confusion here may be that Corel Linux is based on *kernel*

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I think the point of confusion here may be that Corel Linux is based on > *kernel* version 2.2, not *Debian* 2.2. > The web page says "Corel LINUX OS - based on Debian 2.2 Kernel". Huh? > http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm That still doesn't sound entirely clear, though. It cou

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: mailmi >The web page says "Corel LINUX OS - based on Debian 2.2 Kernel". Huh? mailmi >http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm ouch, i can see where that would throw debian users off..non linux people would automatically assume 2.2 kernel i bet .