Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution

[jeff williams <cfiaime@nconnect.net>]

Greetings,

Word Perfect 8 seems not to run under RedHat 7.1, which seems on the surface 
to contradict your post.  (But if your RH 7.1 is simply a server for older 
systems, then we are still in agreement.)  It has failed under kernel 2.2.4 
(RH 7.1), and 2.2.19 (Slackware 8).  A call to Corel was not very satisfying, 
seeing they are pretty much wrapping up their Linux operation.

WP Office 2000 does run on these distributions, but is now getting pricy -- 
about $60 per seat at the university level -- and I despair of continued 
support.  'Tis a shame, because Word Perfect has some features I desire, such 
as easy booklet printing.


On Friday 14 December 2001 18:00, you wrote:
> Wordperfect 8 runs fine on my network; it resides on a PII-350 server
> running RH7.1, accessed by a lot of old RH 6.2 P-I's via NFS on a 10 mbit
> network. It takes a minute or so to load on each one, but after that it's
> fine.
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Kolb <dankolb@ox.compsoc.net>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
> Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 2:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution
> <snip>
>
> >I'm not sure what word processor to (personally) recommend for the
>
> Pentiums -
>
> >you could possibly try using LyX (GUI front-end to LaTeX).
> >
> >Dan
> >- --
> >dankolb@ox.compsoc.net

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