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WordPerfect Office 2000 - Now Shipping

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-good-news dept.

Corel has announced that Corel WordPerfectOffice 2000 for Linux is now shipping. You can find all the details about what each version includes at the URL above. Here is a link with a review of Wordperfect 2000 for Linux. Oh, they also include in the package this little cute bean-filled penguin. I read the review and I'm not sure if this shipping date isn't a bit too early though.

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  1. Actually by Ian+Schmidt · · Score: 5

    The first version of WPO at least is a specially modified Windows .EXE that runs on a modified WINE (the WINE mods eliminate windoze drive letters and make the widgets look like KDE/Qt). They had planned to make it a WineLib application, but g++ has some problems with large C++ apps (you've heard them before - no precompiled headers, no incremental linking) that made going the .EXE+WINE route much more painless.

    (if there's other reasons that Gav or Zygo or any other Corel/Macadamian dudes want to correct me on, feel free.)