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Corel Linux
DeveloperCorel
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateDiscontinued
Default
user interface		KDE

Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based operating system made by Corel that was released in late 1999. Corel later discontinued the distribution, but did not remove the former Corel Open Source Development website until March 2002.

Corel did not use KFM, the standard KDE file manager. It instead used its own file manager, CFM. This, along with other modifications Corel made, meant that Corel Linux suffered at being incompatible with other versions of Linux much more so than other competitors in the industry. At a time when there was relatively little Linux software available, this was a serious hurdle for Corel and its users.

Corel LinuxOS Second Edition was released in download, regular and deluxe editions, the latter of which bundled Corel WordPerfect Office for Linux.

Xandros purchased the Corel Linux source code and development team when Corel scrapped its Linux business in August 2001. However, the Corel Corporation is a stockholder of Xandros.

System requirements

Corel Linux has the following system requirements: [1][2]

Minimum Recommended
Processor Pentium (P5) or compatible/newer
Memory 24 MB of RAM At least 64 MB of RAM
Video adapter and monitor VGA (640 x 480) or higher resolution with 2 GB of VRAM
Hard disk drive free space 500 MB for initial release
800 MB for Second Edition
Optical drive CD-ROM drive[3] (only to install from CD-ROM media)
Input devices Keyboard, mouse or a compatible pointing device
Sound Sound card and Speakers or headphones (only for sound playback)

Features

Corel Linux featured a file manager that was very close in look and feel to Windows Explorer. The file manager provided an integrated Windows SMB network browser. The company also advertised that the operating system was compatible with its flagship software.

WordPerfect

The key selling point of Corel Linux was its compatibility with WordPerfect for Linux applications. The eponymous word processor was given away to personal customers in the hopes that they would purchase the complete WordPerfect suite, which included version 9 of the following programs:

WordPerfect Deluxe added the following applications:

CorelDraw

As with the WordPerfect suite, Corel created a Linux version of its CorelDraw (stylized CorelDRAW) suite. While CorelDraw was paid software, Corel Photo-Paint was made available as a free download.

SmartMove

Corel SmartMove was a part of Corel Linux. This application provided the following:

  1. Migrate Microsoft Windows settings to Corel Linux.
  2. Automate restoring settings that are changed by SmartMove.
  3. Provide an easy way to access network folders through Corel Linux.

SmartMove was built around the Wine libraries to read the Windows registry settings for the Windows applications and thus be able to migrate them. SmartMove core libraries created a wrapper for the Windows registry to easily look up the settings.

SmartMove looks for existing Microsoft Windows installations on the machine, looks a little further for individual users, and offers to transfer application settings to analogous programs under Linux. It understands how to deal with Internet Explorer and Netscape cookies and bookmarks, Outlook, mIRC, and ICQ settings, and a variety of desktop preferences, including wallpaper, color scheme, and even mouse "handedness". We tried it out with a few settings, but since our Windows installation was fairly new, we didn't have much to check against.[4]

With the death of Corel Linux, this application faded away and is no longer maintained, however similar functionality is now available on at least Ubuntu when installing a dual-boot configuration on a machine that already has Windows on it.[5]

References

  1. ^ "System Requirements". Archived from the original on 2000-03-01. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  2. ^ "System Requirements". Archived from the original on 2001-08-06. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  3. ^ Any optical drive that can read CD-ROM media.
  4. ^ Hall, Michael (2000-08-07). "Sneak Preview: Corel Linux OS Second Edition". LinuxPlanet. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  5. ^ Ubuntu feature announcement from Ubuntu 7.04 release

Further reading

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