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To: Wildcat who wrote (8627)1/30/2000 7:34:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson   of 9798
 
Well Congrats to Corel, Someone in the inforworld thing corl is the cat's meow.

infoworld.com

Ok yes, I have put in my negative waves.
Subject: Corel Linux OS ideal for desktops.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:05:06 +0000
Well Tom, I read your review. Corel may have added to "ease of" to
installation of Linux, but taking that to ideal for desktops is kind of
a stretch. I most likely use a computer at much higher levels than
most, but to me a user wants applications that do something useful and
the supporting software that allows applications to do something useful
should not get in the way. Corel's use of KDE is for me a poor choice,
KDE development path is going to make the window manager the end
application which is a path to make it even more piggy than it is today.

See
www2.linuxjournal.com
to see how cool KDE will be with it number 2 feature, a Theme Designer. Yes I can't waite to see someone implement the outhouse theme on their desktop.

But back to Corel.
Currently Corel does not have an office suite for Linux and Corel's choise to use Wine as a short cut is another pathway to increased complexity and bugs.

I like to keep the window manager/program launcher at the correct level of separate from the applications. This is a wiser choice as mixing them leads to compromises of design.

A long time ago I started using this integrated application's Linux environment. My choice is fast and provide's several ways to directly and graphically launch applications. But I favor managing applications to maximize my ability use, create, review and manage the information and ideas available to me provided by the applications served by my computer. So what is this environment.

The conservation of resources to allow 30 open apps and the visual cues to be able to keep track of all that info.

watman.com

Tom Watson tosiwmee
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