[ale] More on Corel and Linux

[Geoff Harrison]

On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 07:14:08AM -0400, Chris Farris wrote:
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980601S0002?st.ne.fd.mnaw
> 
> Linux Draws Corporate Backers
>                  (06/01/98; 10:56 a.m. ET)
>                  By Stuart Glascock, Computer Reseller News 
> 
>                  Corel is standing by the open operating
>                  system Linux in a big way.
> 
>                  Ottawa-based company Corel ported Linux to
>                  its forthcoming NetWinder series of
>                  desktop network computers. The hardware
>                  platform features a range of NC products
>                  with high speed and low overhead,
>                  including a scalable, turnkey,
>                  out-of-the-box Web server solution for
>                  ISPs and small and medium businesses. 
> <snip>
> 
> -- 
> "I foresee the US government instituting a military style draft for
> IT professionals to assist in the software remediation process."
> 			-Anonymous respondent to Y2K survey.

I got the chance to play with one of them at the expo and it was pretty cool.
Performance was better than I expected, even with the software FPU.  X server's
refresh rate left a little bit to be desired, but that's okay.  They've hired
someone from the xfree86 team to write a server for their chips acceleration.
Should be pretty cool all around when it gets finished.  :)  I have a pic
linked off my main site after we had enl and the necessary libs ported to it...
see http://mandrake.net for more details.

-- 
Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
Senior Systems Engineer
Intellimedia Commerce (http://www.intellimedia.com)
Co-Author, Enlightenment Window Manager (http://www.enlightenment.org)
phone: (404)262-0001x102