[SLE] Semi-OT: Anybody try Corel's linux download? I did....
Hey folks: I know this is little of topic, Has Anybody tried Corel's Linux? I did and I DO NOT recommend it. I figured this is the best place to vent some bitterness about Corel's Linux. 1. The Silly thing gave me a new master boot record and an active corel root partition, without even telling me it was going to do it. 2. It mounted all of my ext2 partitions. Without asking me, good thing it didn't crash. 12 in all. 3. It only comes with their version of KDE only or that is what I can tell so far. no session choices, forget about the 20 something other window managers out there. 4. Their kernel can't load the appropriate modules for my NIC card an ISA one in ISA mode. SCO, windures, BSD, and of coarse SuSE can on the same machine. 5. It automatically configures everything including X. gave me 1024x768 @60 Hz on a g200 and forget about custom modes. 6. It couldn't load the modules for my sound blaster 16 , come on. 7. Their documentation quite frankly "sucks". There was some hypertext documentation that doesn't cover the basics like loading modules etc. It had the kind of information that one would find in that news-print manual that came with your windures upgrade. like how to play a sound file. I have been trying various flavours UNIX/Linux for the past three years. I'm no IT/MIS professional, but I only want to use a computer if it can be personalized. I have to have the control that is what I thought was integral with the any thing that is a UNIX flavour. The Corel distribution is the closest of any distribution to windures that I ever seen. I thought I would share my experience with you and to say that SuSE has come out on top again! Cheers, -Btm77 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Looks like it is made exactly for people who know just about what the average WinXX user knows, or less. No choices, no decisions. If it doesn't install properly it is the hardware's fault, or yours. Welcome to Winux! ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist) JLK btm77 wrote:
Hey folks:
I know this is little of topic,
Has Anybody tried Corel's Linux?
I did and I DO NOT recommend it. I figured this is the best place to vent some bitterness about Corel's Linux.
1. The Silly thing gave me a new master boot record and an active corel root partition, without even telling me it was going to do it.
2. It mounted all of my ext2 partitions. Without asking me, good thing it didn't crash. 12 in all.
3. It only comes with their version of KDE only or that is what I can tell so far. no session choices, forget about the 20 something other window managers out there.
4. Their kernel can't load the appropriate modules for my NIC card an ISA one in ISA mode. SCO, windures, BSD, and of coarse SuSE can on the same machine.
5. It automatically configures everything including X. gave me 1024x768 @60 Hz on a g200 and forget about custom modes.
6. It couldn't load the modules for my sound blaster 16 , come on.
7. Their documentation quite frankly "sucks". There was some hypertext documentation that doesn't cover the basics like loading modules etc. It had the kind of information that one would find in that news-print manual that came with your windures upgrade. like how to play a sound file.
I have been trying various flavours UNIX/Linux for the past three years. I'm no IT/MIS professional, but I only want to use a computer if it can be personalized. I have to have the control that is what I thought was integral with the any thing that is a UNIX flavour. The Corel distribution is the closest of any distribution to windures that I ever seen.
I thought I would share my experience with you and to say that SuSE has come out on top again!
Cheers, -Btm77
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The KDE-User mailing list is full of bitter complaints about Corel Linux. Hardly anyone there likes it at all. You're far from alone in your opinion. If you're interested in free (though not open source) varieties of Unix, have a look at the various free Unices (Open Server, UnixWare, etc.) available from SCO, though not for commercial use, they say. One nasty thing about them, though: they insist on occupying a primary partition on the first hard drive, and I doubt if there's a way to fake them out. Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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