Re: corel v. debian

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:56:17PM -0600, charles@sandman.lunarmedia.net wrote:
> 
> Is anyone aware of differences in of libraries used or packages that are
> delivered in the corel 1.0 and debian 2.1r4 distros?
> 
> I know that corel is based on debian, but is it only in the package
> management, or is it the same distro, but repakcaged?

The archives on debian-devel (available from www.debian.org) should
contain a discussion and some test results of this.

Essentially, Corel Linux is Debian slink (that's 2.1) with a few
add-ons and updates from potato (that's the version that just froze,
which will be 2.2) and a few custom updates done by Corel.  On top of
this, Corel has added their own KDE packages, the GUI installer, some
new utilities written by Corel, and a few other goodies.

People have experimented with upgrading a Corel Linux box to potato,
with not quite as much success as upgrading from slink to potato in
its current state.  Apparently, most of the Debian fixes to slink work 
just fine with Corel.  

Additionally, some of Corel's work should show up in potato as well.

You can find some of the differences with Debian's package manager.
If you're curious about a particular pacakge, do this:

  dpkg --status <package>

That works on both Debian and Corel.  It will list the package
maintainer, upstream and package version numbers, and other important
information.  If they're different, look for a corel.ca E-mail address 
for the maintainer; that's likely a Corel innovation, although it
might be in potato.

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