Travis Siegel wrote: >Interesting, though I don't think it's as bad as that. I agree that the >interface has kept a lot of folks out of linux who might otherwise have >tried it, but I don't think it'll stay that way, there's already a boiling >point being reached by a lot of folks, and when that point is reached, >they're willing to put up with a lot to get out from under microsoft. >There won't be the mass conversions a lot of folks are predicting, but >there's always going to be enough to keep the current trend going, so I >for one am not worried about it. > I think the mass conversion is coming sooner rather than later. I've been running COREL for a few years. It only needed a 233mhz with 32 meg dram (be careful to close apps you dont need, or it'll churn the shit out of the IDE swap, unless you have 64meg or more, which is so cheap now, that aint hard), and it recognized all of the windows file formats I was familiar with, and had an import tool to copy them off a windows drive.
But- while it ran winmodems no other Linux would, the Netscape 4.7 that came with it is kinda long in the tooth, and dont display some pages now. I found it gonzo easier to upgrade to Xandros with a new Mozilla than it'd be to upgrade the COREL browser. In any case, Xandros (who bought the rites to COREL) would log on to my local ISP WIN xp/nt servers when other distros could not manage it. (MS-CHAP?) IT offers a GUI that looks, and acts like windoz users expect.
