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  looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux pechter@helix.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2019-01-27 20:21 +0000
    Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2019-01-27 22:02 +0100
      Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-01-27 15:50 -0600
    Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-27 13:04 -0800
      Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2019-02-10 17:51 +1100
    Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-27 13:13 -0800

#53221 — looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux

Anyone out there point me to the 1.2 of Corel Linux (sources -- I have the 
binary)...  I know there are pack rats like me....somewhere.

Been real hard to find the sources anywhere.  I'm thinking about a
modern rebuild of the stuff to play with.

Thanks...
Bill Pechter
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#53235

On 1/27/19 9:21 PM, William Pechter wrote:
> Anyone out there point me to the 1.2 of Corel Linux (sources -- I have the
> binary)...  I know there are pack rats like me....somewhere.
> 
> Been real hard to find the sources anywhere.  I'm thinking about a
> modern rebuild of the stuff to play with.

I would guess the best luck you would have is to try to find debian 
packages from early 2000, but I doubt you will have good luck with that.

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  //Aho

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#53241

J. O. Aho writes:
> I would guess the best luck you would have is to try to find debian
> packages from early 2000, but I doubt you will have good luck with
> that.

https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive
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John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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#53236

William Pechter wrote:
> Anyone out there point me to the 1.2 of Corel Linux (sources -- I have the
> binary)...  I know there are pack rats like me....somewhere.
> 
> Been real hard to find the sources anywhere.  I'm thinking about a
> modern rebuild of the stuff to play with.

Everywhere I find old linuxes such as sourceforge's ArchivOS and 
soft.lafibre.info (which has OS/2 Warp3 from '94 and lots more) I only 
find the .iso/s, no source anywhere.  Corel released that v. in 2000.

My interpretation of an old corel page from the wayback machine suggests 
that corel didn't release the source code for corel linux.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000308074253/http://corel.com/news/1999/may/may_1999_faqs.htm 


// What is CLD?
CLD is a distribution of Linux® using Debian and K Desktop Environment 
(KDE) graphical user interface (GUI). CLD will provide users with a 
clean and powerful operating system, a simple installation setup and 
user–friendly interface.

Will Corel release the source code for its major applications?
While Corel recognizes the value of open source development in many 
areas, and is actively participating in a number of open source efforts 
such as Wine and development of KDE, the company has no plans to release 
the source code for its major applications. Corel’s major applications 
contain many features that rely on code licensed from other vendors, 
with whom the company has a variety of contractual obligations—one of 
which is to keep their source code private. Corel could not release its 
application source code without a tremendous amount of development work 
to isolate the licensed code, and this work would have a significant 
impact on release schedules.
//


-- 
Mike Easter

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#53729

  Sorry for the lateness of this followup!

Groovy hepcat Mike Easter was jivin' in alt.os.linux on Mon, 28 Jan 2019
08:04 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

> My interpretation of an old corel page from the wayback machine
> suggests that corel didn't release the source code for corel linux.

  [Snip.]

> Will Corel release the source code for its major applications?
> While Corel recognizes the value of open source development in many
> areas, and is actively participating in a number of open source
> efforts such as Wine and development of KDE, the company has no plans
> to release the source code for its major applications. Corel’s major
> applications contain many features that rely on code licensed from
> other vendors, with whom the company has a variety of contractual
> obligations—one of which is to keep their source code private. Corel
> could not release its application source code without a tremendous
> amount of development work to isolate the licensed code, and this work
> would have a significant impact on release schedules.

  This sounds like it's not referring to Corel Linux itself, but
applications containing third party code bundled with Corel Linux.
Actually, since the system itself (including all GUI packages, shells,
kernel, start-up files, etc.) are released under the GPL, Corel is
required to make source code for it available. But, if Corel Linux is
just Debian with KDE, as several people have said, then I think all
Corel really has to do is point to the KDE project and Debian's
sources.

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#53237

William Pechter wrote:
> Anyone out there point me to the 1.2 of Corel Linux (sources -- I have the
> binary)...  I know there are pack rats like me....somewhere.
> 
> Been real hard to find the sources anywhere.  I'm thinking about a
> modern rebuild of the stuff to play with.

I don't know exactly what you are shooting for, but if I wanted a 
'retro' type of KDE on top with Deb underneath which is what the old 
Corel Linux was, my choice would be q4OS which uses a current 
TDE/Trinity DE which was forked from KDE 3.5 and well maintained and a 
current Deb.


-- 
Mike Easter

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