Adrian Burd, Dpt. Oceanography, Texas A&M University http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~ecomodel On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Greek Geek wrote:
Hi All & Adrian Burd,
who wrote-lots.... ;-)
<snip> .... If you want the short, brief, bottom line comment - don't buy it.
The systems used were:
PII 300MHz Dell Inspiron 7500 SuSE 6.3 Redhat 6.1 256Mb RAM 128Mb RAM .... <snip>
My Systems are
AMD K6-2 @ 450 MHz Gateway Solo 9300 SuSE 6.3 Mandrake 7.0 128 RAM PII 400 Mhz FIC Motherboard 128 RAM.
I run WordPerfct 8 for Doze on both machines & WordPerfect for Linux too. The Linux version runs about the same speed as the Doze version, but it is slower.
Are you running the Deluxe version or the standard?
The Mandrake install was simple, using ths scripts from corel.com. SuSE took more effort; but that goes well now too.
The fonts do take a while too add, but I've got a few extra fonts too.
I'd be interested to know what happens if you try the following: Add the Zpaf Chancery and Zapf Humanist fonts in Truetype form from CD1. Then add ITC Galliard from the same place. Now try and start Wordperfect. What happens?
Did Tux crash & burn on both your Desktop & Laptop? If it was just so with the former, then maybe you have flakey hardware? Try a BIOS update & how is your ram?
No. What happened in both cases is that the Fonttastic Fontserver crashed (in fact froze) the X-servers on both machines. I have discovered through trial and error that Fonttastic does not coexist happily with xfsft (which had been running on my SuSE box).
Anyhow, my advise to Linux users, which follows from my positive expericences, is buy WordPerfect Office 2000 for Tux.
I would advise anyone thinking about buying this product to first check out the newsgroups that can be accessed from the Corel website. If, after reading these you wish to risk it, the information you'll find in those messages could very well be invaluable. Bear in mind though that the Corel people who post there are NOT the programmers, they can only pass the information onto the programmers.
Thanx Corel.
I commend Corel for their effort, but they have rushed through a product that performs poorly, does not appear to work properly, has poor documentation and is generally a beta product. It is far less polished than many 0.5 releases you see on Freshmeat (and I use several of them quite happily without the headaches Corel is giving me). Adrian -- 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/