Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 April 2004 07:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was > based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably > still testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that fa

Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread David P James
On Mon 19 April 2004 12:24, Bob Underwood wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux > > was based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was > > probably still testing, but I'm not familiar with Debi

Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was > based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably still > testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that far back. > > Thanks > -- > Kind regards > Hans d

Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
ing it > > > -- Forwarded Message -- > Subject: Re: Re: Corel Linux > Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:19:22 +1000 > From: "ann Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hereward Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > this is bullsh

Fwd: Re: Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
you have a interesting way of putting it -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Re: Corel Linux Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:19:22 +1000 From: "ann Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hereward Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this is bullshit - Origi

Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-19 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Bruce wrote: >I hope you can direct me. I have just bought corel linux and instakll it >in its own partition. My problem is that i cant get my modem to >initialise. It works quite well with windows me on the same machine, but >when i query the modem on linux it returns nothing

Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-19 Thread Tom Massey
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:29:58PM +1000, Bruce wrote: > I hope you can direct me. I have just bought corel linux and install > it in its own partition. My problem is that i cant get my modem to > initialise. It works quite well with windows me on the same machine, > but when i query the modem on

Fwd: Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-19 Thread Hereward Cooper
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Corel Linux Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:37:42 + From: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:29, Bruce wrote: > I hope you can direct me. I have ju

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:18:02PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > >Found the problem. As soon as I set up her printcap file with a valid > >entry, it works fine. Baad Corel... > > > Are you saying that you first need to set up a printing system and then > choose a printer in the Photopaint config

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-14 Thread Hans
At 04:50 PM 4/13/01 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:16:16PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: >> "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> If you post the error to one of the corel newsgroups, you may get some >> help. Without the error I can't help you, and I'm

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:16:16PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you post the error to one of the corel newsgroups, you may get some > help. Without the error I can't help you, and I'm trying to recover > from corel apps anyway. 8^) Foun

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread csj
On Friday 13 April 2001 17:40, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've > been using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ... KIllustrator, if you can withstand KDE. It passes my ultimate test for a vector graphics program -- drawi

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:40:01AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've been > using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ... Does Dia fit the bill? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Shutko
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey people. We're playing with Corel Photopaint 9 for Linux on a Debian > 2.2 box, and we're not getting very far. It installed fine, it starts fine. > Unfortunately, as soon as you try to open a new document, it bails on an > unhandled except

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:32:51AM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > Do you know Gimp? I can't think of a reason to use PhotoPaint when there's > Gimp. Better designed menus? Actual help system? I use the GIMP (or for some purposes, ImageMagick) more often, but there are things I find easier to d

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Freedman
ijdag 13 april 2001 11:33 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: corel photopaint > > > On Friday 13 April 2001 04:10, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Hey people. We're playing with Corel Photopaint 9 for Linux on a > Debian > > 2.2

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread me
I believe that 'sketch' may be worth a look, even though it is a 'work in progress'. Raymond On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:40:01AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've been > using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ...

RE: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've been using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ... -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2001 11:33 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

Re: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 13 April 2001 04:10, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. We're playing with Corel Photopaint 9 for Linux on a Debian > 2.2 box, and we're not getting very far. It installed fine, it starts fine. > Unfortunately, as soon as you try to open a new document, it bails on an > unhandled

Re: Corel Linux + Wine

2000-10-17 Thread John Travis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > I successfully installed the documentation for Debian Wine, but I cannot > install the actual program. Corel Linux (version 2) keeps giving me "file > dependency" errors. Unfortuanately, I am new at this, and need some > advice. > > Sincerely, > > CTK > [EMA

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) When this is all done, will settings in /etc, such as my network > > settings be changed? > > apt-get always asks you before overwriting a /etc file. Just select 'no' > (the default, iirc) and it will leave the /etc settings untouched. (It > will

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-09 Thread Aaron Maxwell
> 1) When this is all done, will settings in /etc, such as my network > settings be changed? apt-get always asks you before overwriting a /etc file. Just select 'no' (the default, iirc) and it will leave the /etc settings untouched. (It will do this for each /etc/ file separately, so you can clo

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-09 Thread John Reinke
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (among other things): >... >3. Remove all packages with the string "corel" in them. You can get >... >4. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to where the new packages are >... >5. As root type: > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade >... Okay, I a

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-09 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 6. KDE is now gone (CorelOS comes with a Corelized version of KDE, > which you removed a few steps ago). In its stead, I installed > gnome. [1] Install the necessary gnome stuff with this command: > apt-get install gdm gnome-bin gnome-pa

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone asked, so here's how I transmuted my version of CorelOS to > more or less "pure" debian. Though this worked for me, it might be a > good idea to read any comments made on this post before doing this, > since IANAG (i am not a guru) > > 1. Esta

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-07 Thread Cam Ellison
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:04:01 -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: >On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: >> One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages >> hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was >> HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs wa

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-07 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages > > hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was > > HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs was present :

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages > hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was > HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs was present :) [2] That was my biggest gripe too. :-)

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:05:08AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > I think it's fine. > > My 1-month-old system came with CorelOS preinstalled. I used it for a > week until I changed it to "pure" debian [1]. I too has a similar experience: because slink won't install on my new Atlon, I installed C

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
gt; Hi all > > Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux? > I have just obtained a copy and don't know much about it. I have been > using freeBSD and Slack for a desktop only box. > It appears to be targeted at people like me, who only have one >

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-05 Thread Warren A. Layton
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 06:17:09PM -0700, Jeff Roediger wrote: > Hi all > > Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux? > I have just obtained a copy and don't know much about it. I have been > using freeBSD and Slack for a desktop only box. > It ap

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-05 Thread Marko Cehaja
Why Corel when you have Debian? Corel is based on Debian, but not at all good like it. > Hi all > > Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux? > Marko

Re: Corel package manager

2000-06-21 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:17:56PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Unless you particularly want the Corel package manager, you would be I do. > better off with the Storm version - Storm did not do anything > proprietory to KDE like Corel. The Storm Package Manager is an excellent I know. And I a

Re: Corel package manager

2000-06-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if anyone was able to get Corel's package manager named > get_it > running on a non-Corel installation. Since Corel did change some of > the KDE > libraries the other programs included need the Corel Version of > libkdeui and > libkdecore I think

RE: corel uninstallable

2000-05-22 Thread Alain Reinhardt
Le lun, 22 mai 2000, Dominic Blythe a écrit : > -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> after 1/2 seconds "error 0x10" appear beneath previous message, cdrom spins >> again, same msg again and again and again Hi, Have you tried that same installa

RE: corel uninstallable

2000-05-22 Thread Dominic Blythe
It worked fine for me, but i know a few people who've has this/similar problem. no answers though :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2000 17:19 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hi with regard to this Hi, could anyone help me

Re: Corel Linux

2000-05-07 Thread John Hasler
muzica writes: > I read that [Corel Linux} is a collaboration with you. Corel Linux is derived from Debian and contains a subset of Debian's packages, but it is not a collaborative effort. The Debian developers offered to help Corel but were refused. > When I install Corel on my second partitio

Re: Corel Linux

2000-05-07 Thread Erik Ryberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Debian team, > > I read that is a collaboration with you. So I really hope to get help > regarding > installation. > > I am using P3(450) processsor, 32MB RAM, onboard (integrated) display card and > others are standard. When I install Corel on my seco

Re: Corel Linux

2000-05-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
Error messages are always required in these kind of wituations if you would like an answer that could be of any use to you... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 8 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Debian team, > > I read that is a collaboration with you. So I really hope to get help > regar

Re: Corel/Linux OS

2000-04-25 Thread pplaw
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Jean-Philippe_Gu=E9rard?= wrote: > >I am a bit unsure of what you use to access your floppy drive from > >the Desktop. To access a floppy drive, you probably need to mount it > >first with "fdmount" or "xvmount". > > -- > Jean-Philippe Guérard > // and "mount /dev/fd0 /" (but wi

Re: Corel/Linux OS

2000-04-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-04-24 15:58:40 -0700, Angel M. Hernandez écrivait : > I'm using Linux OS from Corel and I'm having problems trying to access my > floppy drive from the Desktop. Please can anyboby help me? Also I would like > to buy a instructions book, if there is any, about Debian Linux. Thank you. You

Re: Corel Lilo

2000-04-21 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:34, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > Hello: > > I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look. > > Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I > looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it. You might want to try

Re: Corel Lilo

2000-04-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > Hello: > > I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look. > > Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I > looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it. Try the ftp server(s). It's said that a couple of so

RE: corel linux

2000-04-07 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > Yes, I have it and I am going through install-hell. It's not install-hell; it's all the your life-experience you need to reach your destiny... > Actually it installs > very easily, but Ima trying to get a firewall together and I am having > problems wit

Re: corel linux

2000-04-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The copy of Storm I had came with xf86 3.3.5. Also, I have found that > a > lot of the power user types (myself included) dislike Storm at first > but > once they "delamerize" it a bit they really like it a lot. I agree with Sam on this one. I used Debian, upgraded

Re: corel linux

2000-04-05 Thread sam
The copy of Storm I had came with xf86 3.3.5. Also, I have found that a lot of the power user types (myself included) dislike Storm at first but once they "delamerize" it a bit they really like it a lot. ~Sam On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, aphro wrote: > woulda been nice if storm had updated X before relea

Re: corel linux

2000-04-04 Thread aphro
woulda been nice if storm had updated X before releasing. seems like they are still using 3.3.2.3 (?) none of my videocards work with that :< doh! of course i only spent about 30 mins trying to install it.. nate On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, sam wrote: hari >I have tried Corel Linux but I wasn't crazy ab

Re: corel linux

2000-04-04 Thread Sandy Shapiro
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/04/00 at 04:19 PM, "massa confusa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I have read that corel linux is based on debian. Does anyone on this >list use it and can they tell me any more about it? Thanks, >mary I tried it and returned it in favor or Debian Gnu/Linux pac

Re: corel linux

2000-04-04 Thread Hans
It installed beautifully on my Acer notebook. Only needed to load a sound module. --hans At 04:19 PM 4/4/00 -0500, massa confusa wrote: >I have read that corel linux is based on debian. Does anyone on this list >use it and can they tell me any more about it? Thanks, > >mary > > >-- >Unsubscribe

Re: corel linux

2000-04-04 Thread james nigh
yes, it is based on debian. i've used it quite a bit. here's my take: naturally, since i am a debian fan, i think it's the greatest of the "Linux-for-the-Windows-user-who wants-to-try-out-Linux" distribution, though i try to be unbiased. (based on the ones i've tried... Redhat, Corel, and Caldera)

Re: corel linux

2000-04-04 Thread sam
I have tried Corel Linux but I wasn't crazy about it. It's very geared towards the desktop Windows user. I recommend you check out Storm Linux at www.stormix.com. Storm is also based on Debian but I like the things they added to it a lot more than what Corel did. I installed it last week and I've b

RE: corel linux

2000-04-04 Thread Chris Mason
Yes, I have it and I am going through install-hell. Actually it installs very easily, but Ima trying to get a firewall together and I am having problems with network card install, however, I think I would have the same problems with any Linux system. The initial install is easy, the interface is

Re: Corel WP: missing libXpm.so.4

2000-03-28 Thread Tony Crawford
Vitux wrote (on 28 Mar 00, at 18:20): > ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > Any ideas? Yeah, been there. You just need to install the corresponding library from either the X or the oldlibs section, I forget which, of your Debian release. Try maybe dselect, [S]elect, slash to search, "libX

Re: Corel WP: missing libXpm.so.4

2000-03-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 18:20:59 +0200, Vitux wrote: > ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' This must be in the mailing list archives. Install the xpm4.7 package from the oldlibs section of your friendly neigbourhood Debian mirror. HTH, Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not

Re: Corel WP: missing libXpm.so.4

2000-03-28 Thread Erik Ryberg
Yes, you need to install it through apt. I think it's called xlib.so.4 or something like that. Scroll through in dselect and you will find it. Install and all will be well. Erik Ryberg Vitux wrote: > Hi Deb's > I installed the tar.gz from Corel's website in /usr/local/WP > on my Slink-system

Re: Corel - Debian

2000-02-03 Thread Cédric Charest
> while corel is working on a setup/install program to give a graphical > front end to debian's install i haven't heard any reports of it being > completed ..corel has sourcecode and docs for it on their site. i > dont > see how you could install debian with a corel front end. unless your > just

Re: Corel - Debian

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Lance Wearmouth wrote: lance >I am a new user of Linux and have not even installed it yet. Have lance >been around with Windows for a while tho and use NT4 W. I have lance >obtained distributuib of Debian and also the download cd from Corel. lance >My intention is to finish u

Re: Corel Linux debs

2000-02-02 Thread Alfred Munnikes
Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anybody tried installing the Corel debs from > ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/dists/corellinux-1.0/corel/binary-i386/ > ? I've tried them, but they depend on libapt-pkg2.5, which I can't seem to > find > anywhere... > > Does anybody know where libap

Re: Corel Update

1999-12-15 Thread Darren Benham
You'll have to ask that of Corel. Most of us at Debian do not use their tools to do the actual day-to-day update of our boxen. We use and recommend the tool called "apt" from the commandline.

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-07 Thread John Hasler
Shaul Karl writes: > What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian venture? Will they > release updates, Corel-potato, make their release larger etc? I haven't the foggiest idea what their plans are. They are very secretive. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisc

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-07 Thread Shaul Karl
> Randy Edwards writes: > > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > > dark side? :-) > > I consider them all new Debian users. What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian ventu

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Randy Edwards writes: > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > dark side? :-) I consider them all new Debian users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elm

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread Randy Edwards
> actually sounds kinda scary. Flashback to when AOL entered the Internet?! :-) I dunno, I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the dark side? :-) -- Regards,| Debian G

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-05 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: redwar > This ought to be interesting, because as Corel establishes itself I'm redwar >sure we'll be dealing with more and more Corel users here in Debian-User... maybe a good time to unsubscribe ? ;) actually sounds kinda scary. nate ---

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-05 Thread Randy Edwards
Joe Block wrote: > > When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did > after corel's install was done was add my local mirror of slink, > security.debian.org, the y2k updates & the XFree86 3.3.5 to its > sources.list and update & upgrade. I went ahead and did a Corel to sli

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joe Block
Randy Edwards wrote: > > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? > > I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in > /etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did > an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've b

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: redwar >I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in redwar >/etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did redwar >an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've been playing with the idea of redwar >testing it her

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Randy Edwards wrote: > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? That's pretty pointless. Corel linux *is* slink with a very few changes, most of which are upgrades. Thus, there is nothing in slink to upgrade to. Please see http://www.debian.org/News/week

Re: Corel WordPerfect problems

1999-11-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
WordPerfect needs the libc5 version of libXpm.so.4. Install the xpm4.7 package. On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:22:51AM +0300, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Hi all > > I've got problem when try to run WordPerfect for linux > > It claimes that it cann't find libXpm.so.4 library. > > when I try to use ldd

Re: Corel/deb...compile kernel

1999-11-21 Thread Darren O. Benham
I'd guess that corel doesn't install the source by default...? In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >Please forgive if this is a newbie type question, but I can't seem to >find the path to the source directory to recompile my kernel for the >Corel/Deb distribution. > > > -- ==

Re: Corel linux

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Sven Esbjerg wrote: joker >Well all the GNU/Linux stuff will have to be GPL and it is. The rest is under joker >a Mozilla-like license that Corel made up. It's pretty much free. I think joker >Debian developers should take a look at it, notice the good parts and try to joker

Re: Corel linux

1999-11-18 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 03:45:00PM -0800, aphro wrote: > anytime soon..i doubt corel is up to releasing it as GPL. chances are low Well all the GNU/Linux stuff will have to be GPL and it is. The rest is under a Mozilla-like license that Corel made up. It's pretty much free. I think Debian develop

Re: Corel linux

1999-11-17 Thread aphro
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Charles Lewis wrote: lewisc >Anyone know what kind of effect corel is having on debian? Is their distro lewisc >debian or not? What are the major differences? Corel apparently touts a 3 lewisc >step, user friendly installation. Does this mean that debian itself will lewisc >

Re: Corel Linux

1999-11-06 Thread aphro
I only got beta 2 of corel linux (oct 22 1999 build) it appears that it may be compadible with slink package wise, although it seems QUITE limited in terms of binary packages compared to slink.. i was and still am very dissapointed with their lack of selection for applications. and fear that their

Re: Corel Linux

1999-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Nick Wesselman wrote: > What exactly does it mean if a distribution is "based on" Debian? Would any > packages created for debian work with it? Well they should unless Corel messes up the packages they modify, or package incompatable library versions. > Are new releases "created" when > new rew r

Re: Corel

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 08:01:29PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On Tue 09/21/99 09:45PM, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > Corel's been trying to release a beta of their distro under terms that > > violates the GPL (no redistribution what-so-ever, etc). Needless to say, > > a real mess has come about it.

Re: Corel

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Tue 09/21/99 09:45PM, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Corel's been trying to release a beta of their distro under terms that > violates the GPL (no redistribution what-so-ever, etc). Needless to say, > a real mess has come about it. The person Bruce talked to is trying to > change that. > I just read

Re: Corel

1999-09-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: [snip] > Please forgive my ignorance, or lack of attention to earlier > threads, but what's he working on? Corel's been trying to release a beta of their distro under terms that violates the GPL (no redistribution what-so-ever, etc). Needless to say, a real

Re: Corel

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Bruce, On Wed 09/22/99 01:02AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I spoke with a Corel official today - he had hoped to have a policy change > announcement today but ran out of time. He committed that he has been assigned > the problem, he really is working on it, and he said that I can tell people >

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

1999-07-31 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 31 Jul, Paul wrote about "Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare" > Phil Dyer wrote: >> >> Paul wrote: >> > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical >> > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying &qu

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

1999-07-31 Thread Paul
Phil Dyer wrote: > > Paul wrote: > > > > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > > directory so I type in /usr or > > /hom

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

1999-07-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 02:30:29PM -0400, Phil Dyer wrote: > Paul wrote: > > > > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > >

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

1999-07-31 Thread Phil Dyer
Paul wrote: > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > directory so I type in /usr or > /home and it says "invalid directory" an

Re: Corel + Debian +KDE ????

1999-07-22 Thread Ming Poon
"Arjen v. V." wrote: > Hi all, > > I've heard that Corel is preparing to launch a new Distibution, with the > coöperation of Debian and KDE. > Does anybody know anything more about that? A preview will be shown in August 10th -12th in Linux World, followed by a beta in early September, and a ful

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : >- I don't remember other reasons but GNOME is greater ! : > : We could argue that... ;) Please do so somewhere other than debian-user. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. > [ etc. deleted ] > Please stop right here! If you don't understand it then just keep quiet instead of provoking yet another flame war on this subject. Corel made a choice with regards to mak

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/22/99 3:27:48 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. > KDE is not free or not fully free. As stated in the release that came out a few days ago - it had to do with the fact that KDE has been aroun

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread thomas lakofski
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Philip Lehman wrote: > How enlightening. KDE bashing is pretty trendy at the moment, isn't > it? i think it'll be nice to have the choice of either. commercial adoption of debian as a base can only lead to good things, i think (judging by what corel's saying). > Please, let

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. > KDE is not free or not fully free. > It's worse than Gnome : > - it takes more memory > - it's not GTK ( I'm a GTk fan) > - I will have less apps because Gnome is newer and

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
Oh, no. Let's not start another GNOME-vs-KDE thread. Please! On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 08:47:47PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. [ Rest deleted ]

Re: corel on linux

1999-04-16 Thread Sean
> > take a peak at this, http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35166,00.html > > > > excerpt, > > > > Corel will base a Linux product based on the version of Linux from > > Debian. Though Debian's Linux can be purchased at many sites, Debian > > is a non-profit organization > Boy, I can already hear

Re: corel on linux

1999-04-16 Thread Mark Phillips
> take a peak at this, http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35166,00.html > > excerpt, > > Corel will base a Linux product based on the version of Linux from > Debian. Though Debian's Linux can be purchased at many sites, Debian > is a non-profit organization So perhaps Corel is doing what many of

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

1998-12-21 Thread marvin stodolsky
My WP8 installation is up and working. Herein a few cautions are passed along, learned during setting up on my Dell Inspiron Laptop, which is a dual boot Win95 & Linux. 1) Do gunzip and tar -xvf the files in some Linux directory like /tmp Unpacking in a DOS/Win95 partition is inadequate because a

Re: Corel WP 8.0 Floating Point Exception

1998-12-19 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Ashok Gopalakrishnan wrote: > I had the same problem with WP 8.0. When installing the first time, I > had not selected any printer, because I did not find a printer driver > that matched my printer (BJC 4200). The installation completed without > any problems, but on trying to

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-19 Thread ferret
Hm. The first time I tried to install I was #4 to download. It installed but wouldn't correctly run. It would complain about missing some file that it copied into one of its directories. Sorry, don't remember for sure which one. And then I tried to reinstall. I also upped my kernel from 2.0.34

Re: Corel WP 8.0 Floating Point Exception

1998-12-18 Thread Ashok Gopalakrishnan
I had the same problem with WP 8.0. When installing the first time, I had not selected any printer, because I did not find a printer driver that matched my printer (BJC 4200). The installation completed without any problems, but on trying to run xwp, I got the floating point exception message. Wel

Re: Corel WP 8.0 Floating Point Exception

1998-12-18 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, buns wrote: > I am getting the Floating Point Exception error message when I try to > run xwp. Any idea why? As I told some time ago I had the same problem with the earlier demo version. Anyone has any idea, why? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > In netscape something popped up and disappeared so fast I was unable to > read it. I kept trying and eventually got there. I assume it was a > message saying that the maximum number of users had been reached. The > site must be VERY busy as I'm getting

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere!

1998-12-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Now what we need is a debian installer package for this just like the one for netscape or star office. Something that will set up the menu system, environmental variables, paths etc (I ended up with /usr/local/bin/wpbin/) _ DO YOU YAHOO!?

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
kenneth collaborated, >> The runme asks if you've untarred things, and decides there's nothign >> new to do if you say yes. If you say no, it untars, but still doesn't >> do anything. The executables end up in ./linux/bin >> I assume there's some option i'm missing to figure out to tell it t

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