On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 14:11:53 -0800 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> dijo:
>For those who remember the experience of actually reading a magazine >front to back, rather than just flicking pages full of shiny >advertisement - another one bites the dust. > >So long Linux Journal House remodeling required moving things, sorting though it to discard tons of stuff that is no longer needed. But I saved one item: May/June 2000 issue of Maximum Linux, featuring reviews of Corel Linux, Slackware 7.0 and WordPerfect 8.0, plus two CDs containing Storm Linux 2000 and Mandrake 7.0. Corel Linux was my first venture into Linux. For those who are too new to Linux to have heard of it, Corel Corporation, whose main program was CorelDRAW!, by 2000 had added Corel Photopaint, and had acquired Ventura Publisher and the WordPerfect Suite. Their avowed plan was to develop Corel Linux and then have all these programs running on it. Unfortunately, their method was to work with WineHQ to get them all running under Wine. They got as far as CorelDRAW, Photopaint and WordPerfect, but financial difficulties forced them to abandon getting Ventura Publisher working. I was heavily into DTP at the time and I was eager to abandon QuakXPress, PageMaker, and most of all, Windows and MS Office. I eagerly bought Corel Linux and all the Corel programs and installed them on my previous computer, sitting unused. Sadly, Michael Cowpland (head of Corel Corp.) was a genius at user interfaces, and an utter klutz at getting good code. Getting X and Wine to run for more than a couple hours without crashing was usually impossible. Eventually I had to give up and continue my obeisance to the evil empire. If anyone collects old Linux magazines I would be happy to give this copy to someone who would appreciate it. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
