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Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:19 pm
by wove
In my on going cleanout of old stuff, I found a boxed set of Corel Linux 2nd edition. It requires a Pentium processor 32MB of RAM and 800MB of hard drive space, a CD ROM and a PCI vga capable video card with 2MB of video RAM. Features the KDE desktop. It includes the full Corel graphics suite (version9) and WordPerfect 8 and Adobe Acrobat. Fully y2k compliant, and included a 12" inflatable Linux penguin (which is missing). I actually remember nothing about this, and have no idea what I might have installed it on.

Probably all that is note worthy is it has Linux versions of very traditional Windows propritiary software. It says it is built on Debian with 2.2.16 Linux kernel, and also says you can install RedHat rpms directly. I think this whole endeavor marked the beginning of Corel's big downfall. It has me curious enough to wonder if I could get this up and running is VirtualBox or something similar.

What version of KDE was out in 1999?

bill

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:25 pm
by tlmiller
That would be around the time of KDE 1.1!!

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:39 pm
by crosscourt
Inflatable Penguin, thats pretty cool. Its funny that in those days which you also saw with pc games, they included a lot of promo merchandise.

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:50 am
by bin
YUP that was my second ever linux. I actually paid for it. Learned a lot - KDE 1 - oh yes!!!

I guess it would install with virt manager as I that goes back to Debian Slink with the End of Life templates.

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:04 pm
by tlmiller
If you do it, let us know how it is. Maybe some screenshots too for nostalgia's sake, I have fond memories (although at this point that's all it is, I can't actually remember what it looked like) of KDE 1.

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:07 pm
by crosscourt
Ive honestly never seen KDE 1. I began with Linux when KDE 3 was being used.

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:27 pm
by wove
Here a a few pictures of Corel Linux running on Mac OS X 10.5 on a PowerMac G5.

bill

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:41 pm
by tlmiller
Maybe that's why I don't remember KDE 1 very well, it looks nearly identical to KDE 2...

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:54 pm
by wove
KDE has had a lot that has stayed very similar. The Task Manager does not look a whole lot different from the current one. The main menu is almost identical to the default TDE menu. Kwrite is there v 0.98. The console is called Console rather than Konsole. Unfortunately most of the applications I was interested in seeing start as links and clicking them directs you to the site to download them, which of course no longer exists. Corel Linux comes on one CD installer and that is only using 450MB of the CD.

bill

Re: Corel Linux 1999 oddity

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:16 pm
by tlmiller
Oh yes, there's definitely a familiarity in all the KDE releases, and 1/2/3 are definitely more than JUST familiarity, they're EXTREMELY similar. But 1 & 2, they're REALLY (visually) similar!! I'm sure 2 was much better than 1 functionally, but just going by visuals, they look nearly identical. While 3 was definitely still VERY similar, it is (for the most part) almost immediately distinguishable from 1 or 2.