Talk:Corel Linux
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Why did Corel abandon Linux?
"WashingtonPost: Microsoft Faces New Antitrust Probe Over Corel Deal" http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A5576-2001Feb14¬Found=true —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.216.202.56 (talk) 12:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- Corel didn't abandon Linux; they spun it off. The chronology on this page is a bit misleading. At the start of 2001, the company was restructuring (and trying to become profitable again), and making their own Linux distribution didn't really fit in with the company vision. It was the sort of thing that would be better done as its own company, so they entered into talks with Linux Global Partners who were interested in doing exactly that. However, LGP didn't raise the required cash for the deal in time, and development on Corel Linux was quietly shelved in March 2001. I was working there at the time. The deal eventually went ahead anyway: LGP founded Xandros in May, and in August it was publicly announced that Xandros had purchased Corel Linux. 69.157.41.241 (talk) 06:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
"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." Not true. The Corel's KDE works well for me, on Mandrake 7.1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.228.117 (talk) 20:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] CFM
I wonder about the negative blurb on CFM instead of sticking to the standard KDE app, KFM at the time: Xandros is doing just the same with XFM (pbbly a continuation of CFM), when Konqueror is even better than KFM was. --Jerome Potts (talk) 20:29, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
