Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

You're right - I forgot to mention that WP runs fine from all the 6.2
clients but not on the 7.1 server. I never looked into why.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: jeff williams <cfiaime@nconnect.net>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Sunday, December 16, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution


>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
>
>--
>jeff williams - cfiaime@nconnect.net
> jeff.williams@cuw.edu
> jbw9586@ksu.edu
>