FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

Net Llama! netllama
Thu Jan 4 15:50:59 PST 2007


On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> After reading discussion of Fedora Core x on this list, I got a FC6 DVD
> in a copy of  Linux Magazine.
> Installation was straightforward, although my display went blank right
> after configuring sound.
> The mouse pointer would flash on and off every few seconds, but after a
> hard reboot  it is running OK.
> I made things a bit more complicated by installing FC6 on a "lab rat"
> running Solaris 10, and Solaris' GRUB chainloads it.
>
> As many old-time list members know, the only interest I have in a Linux
> is running Word Perfect 8. ;-)
> So, an FC'ers have any idea what it takes to get WP8 to run on it?
>
> And, yes, Lonnie, I did a google search.

I doubt any Linux distro released in the past 2-3 years is going to easily 
run WP8 due to the ancient libs that it requires.  Have you tried to 
install it?

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