“Well it is official, Corel has become a Linux distributor.
And I must say they have some nice ideas, but they also seem to
live in a closed environment without really looking outside their
box much….“
“I saved the partition table, allowed Corel Linux to format away
and do its install. I sat back with a nice glass of juice and
watched. I was amazed when it reached 98% done in just a few
minutes, then I was depressed to find out that the 5 minutes to 98%
was a joke in the waiting as the last 2% took 20 minutes. I thought
it was hung and rebooted once and restarted, the next time I just
let it run till it errored out (hoping it would) and it didn’t but
actually finished the second time. Big mistake not telling people
what you are doing at all times, just showing a graphical progress
bar and a spinning CD. Don’t take my experience as being common, I
was playing with this under VMWare so the slowness is likely
attributable to the hardware emulation. But if the progress bar is
out of sorts, it needs help….”
“The graphics display in VMWare requires its own X driver. No
problem I thought, go to console mode, download the driver and run
the installer. This is true, up to a point. It did work flawlessly
but now you can’t use the tools Corel gave you to adjust the
resolution. Now come on, it isn’t that hard to read the
configuration file and then make adjustments acoordingly. Corel
choose to do the stupid thing of rewritting the configuration file
on its own each time you make a change. This means that for people
with special XF86Config files, Corel breaks things. Again I can get
past this, but it needs to be fixed so that people can use the
tools without breaking things.”