FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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.

Yea, something like that.  Its an a.out dinosaur in an ELF world.

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