Note:Corel(TM) and Corel Linux are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation.My thoughts about Corel Linux:
-Not bad for somebody entering the Linux world.
-The install is very neat IF your hardware is supported.THE easiest Linux install you'll ever make.
Known Bugs:
1.If you have problems with Video cards or SCSI drivers the installer will just reboot your computer in something which looks like a no go. For the video card problem I made a set of 2 floppies which can be used to manually configure the X server needed for install. The floppies can be dowloaded from here .
2.KDE:Corel did a nice job repackaging KDE.Nice cause it looks nice but otherwise you're locked in the kde shipped with Corel which is linked especially against libapt.What does this mean? Basically you can not upgrade too much especially from the unstable tree of Debian.The only problem for now is that Corel is a one year old distro so a lot of the new software won't work unless you're willing to upgrade packages from Debian potato(frozen now).
Another kde-corel problem is the fact that Corel moved the kde libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib while the "standard place" for them would be in /usr/lib. This will render pretty much any precompiled binaries and/or the *.deb packages at The KDE Packaging Project simply won't run.Most of them will simply give a Segmentation Fault.
And now the solution as per an email I received can be read here.I mention again is a tip I received and not a solution I found.Just to make the things right.
That's it for now since I got really dissapointed of Corel not fixing anything and giving me a Corel Office for windows(TM) cd at Comdex.So I dropped Corel Linux and installed Storm Linux which works great for me. BACK