On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 08:22:20AM +0300, ron peake wrote:
> Hi
> Corel's Office 2000 for Linux is based on Wine and runs fine at
> least on RH6,1. (No time available to install on Mandrake 7,02 as
> yet, but I will do it.)
> No crashes, no lockups, no problems. It seems rather stable to me.
I've heard of some issues about Corel Office, but there are a few
points to make beside that:
1) Corel's version of Wine is not the same as the Wine project.
Corel forked an existing version of Wine and worked on it in-house
for a few months. A few months ago they gave people read-access to their
CVS tree, but patches must still be extracted from their version.
(BTW, Wine has a BSD license, so there's no legal problem with this)
2) The wine configuration file and command-line prompts are still in
flux; for example, in Wine 20000430 the "-managed" command-line option
was moved into wine.conf. This kind of thing would cause problems for a
DrakWine-type of configuration. :)
3) The Wine team themselves say that it's alpha, developer-only release.
They still have major changes planned that will break some programs. Now
their version of stable may be a lot stricter than ours -- but let's draw
an analogy to kernels. I've been running 2.3.x kernels for ages now
(until I installed 7.1 beta3; that is. No ReiserFS in the standard kernels :)
without any problems. But if AC says that it isn't stable, I think that
a distro shouldn't include it as part of their main functionality. Just
because the developers say that it isn't ready yet.
Easy wine configuration stuff should happen at some point; I just don't think
it should be quite yet.
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