differences Debian and Corel?

2001-06-03 Thread Herman Christiani
Hi All, This is my first posting in this group, I'm using at the moment a dualboot machine, NT4 and Corel Linux 1.2 since there is no further development regarding Corel Linux I'm contemplating to change to Debian (potato). Corel did not need anything to install NT in the boatloader (LILO?) and I

Re: differences Debian and Corel?

2001-06-03 Thread Jonathan Freiermuth
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:53:26PM -0700, Herman Christiani wrote: Hi All, This is my first posting in this group, I'm using at the moment a dualboot machine, NT4 and Corel Linux 1.2 since there is no further development regarding Corel Linux I'm contemplating to change to Debian (potato).

Re: differences Debian and Corel?

2001-06-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:03:30AM -0400, Jonathan Freiermuth wrote: :Short answer - yes. :Real answer - yes, if you are willing to learn. : :I've never personally used Corel, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess :that Corel did its best to hide the complexities of Linux from the user. :

Re: differences Debian and Corel?

2001-06-03 Thread Greg Madden
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: snip I've never used Corel either so caveat lector, but if it's Debian derived, can't he just edit /etc/apt/sources and do a dist-upgrade? This would leave the kernel in tact and let him keep all his data and whatever frobs he likes from Corel. Corel is a blend of

Re: differences Debian and Corel?

2001-06-03 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:03:30AM -0400, Jonathan Freiermuth wrote: :Short answer - yes. :Real answer - yes, if you are willing to learn. : :I've never personally used Corel, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess :that Corel did its best to hide