Sorry. It wasn't fair to compare Storm and Corel as I've not used Storm. I should have changed the subject and just said Corel have done a good job in taking Debian and wrapping it up in a way that can be sold in schools and offices along with WordPerfect.
The Corel installer is very good. It never had problems with the Windows partition when I tried it on a laptop. And it did a better job on that laptop than I've ever managed in a year of tweaking X. That said, it barely ran because it has only 24 MB RAM but can't blame anyone but myself for that:-( The graphical front-end to apt/dselect worked fine when I tried it. It doesn't qmatter if the move to potato breaks Corel apps. Corel is not Debian and if you want a Corel desktop then you have to wait til they are ready to do upgrades. No-one complained of Win2k beta crashes so why should Corel be held to a higher standard? If it works as advertised, that's enough for most people. The Corel lilo is a pain; I couldn't wait to get rid of it. The keyboard maps not working for us non-US users is a pain. It gives a feeling that the vendor is bloody lazy. And its the word "vendor" is part of the reason I fsck-ed Corel after playing about with it for an evening. I prefer the "I rolled my own desktop" experience of the non-corporate world. Another eason I wouldn't stick with Corel is that I don't think they "get it" as far as open source is concerned. Its fine that they are porting this and that, but its not DFSG compliant. Helix, AbiWord, KOffice: these are the names I want to see doing well. WP is just a version of MS Office that hasn't sold as well. Its the free speech not free beer that is most important. I hope Storm continues their good work. Patrick Kirk