FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?
> 

I thought it took libc5 or something like that?  I'll look in my notes.


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