At 09:27 AM 4/10/02, Derek Broughton wrote: >Nick wrote: >>Hi Derek >>I remember hearing about Corel, I never knew Debian was to be its successor, >>almost makes me wish I started learning Linux earlier. > >Debian isn't a successor to Corel. Corel, like a number of other >distributions was a commercial distribution built on top of Debian (slink >- the predecessor to potato). So it was a slink base with a >Corel-modified KDE desktop and some dicey hardware detection. Corel's >Linux has finally been taken over by Xandros which is planning to continue >in much the same vein. But these commercial distros have never had much >success because once you get the newbie using it, he quickly discovers how >easy it is to progress to full Debian, with all the advantages and none of >the cost :-) Corel's selling feature was telephone support - except >nobody ever managed to get any support!
I think that the biggest thing that first Corel and then Progeny showed the Debian community, is the need for a good easy installer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
