On Sunday 30 September 2001 21:26, Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
> I guess I should have said something sooner - got busy and forgot.  8.1
> is a dream; everything works unbelieveably well!  I'm saving my pennies
> to buy prosuite as soon as it's available!
>
> I have one suggestion that I miss from 7.xx releases (hopefully will be
> included in future?)  During install when you're selecting partition
> sizes, you no longer have the ability to just type in the size you want
> or some kind of fine tune adjustment at least; there's only the one
> slider bar and it's not very sensitive.  For example; when choosing the
> size of my /boot partition, I could choose between 7M or 61M, but I
> couldn't seem to get anything in-between that.  I would have liked to
> set it at 15M for future possibilities, but as much as I worked with my
> mouse on that slider bar, I couldn't get it!
>
> I know that's pretty small, but I've got to say, that's the only thing
> about the entire distro that I've found even slightly problematic...
>  Great job guys!!!
>
> One other thing, could someone point me to a page that would list
> EVERYTHING that will be included in the prosuite pack?
>
> tia, Mike

All the free software which we didn't prove had problems (yes some is on the 
commercial CDs).  Quite a lot of business programs including multi-station 
accounting with real invoices and general ledger and time billing and even a 
web store which posts to the sales journal, most of the Software Offeed by 
TheKompany, and various server-oriented products.  StarOffice now will 
support S3 Savage, and you will see more new software than old.  CD9 has 
wizards that set up servers with just a couple of questions each.

If you are into programming, XBasic has joined the ranks, complete with 
drag-n-drop to build graphical grids and instant translation to functions.  
Superficially resembling Visual basic, and running on X and on Windows, it is 
actually powerful enough that the compiler is written in itself.  It was one 
of the packages that fell on a commercial CD though it is GPL with LGPL 
libraries, but don't worry. We surrounded it with a wreath of garlic and 
wolfsbane to keep away evil spirits.-)

All the new games are on the free software, though.  Stay tuned for some 
surprises.

Civileme

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