What kind of newbies do you want testing Corel Linux? Would you want me: the learns-about-debian-from-a-friend, installs it himself and is currently figuring out how to recompile a kernel newbie...? Or do you want the MacOS/Win casual user who just types WPs and etc? I doubt Corel is making an OS for the latter... Windows is indeed good enough for this first group of people, and more economical as well. Consider the time it takes to install your typical linux distro... I know that Debian takes long enough!:) Although Linux is free, time is money for joe-shmoe desktop user who doesn't really have time for some of the odd admin-duties that Linux requires sometimes... not to mention learning BASH, X, or reading the FM... or setting up Netscape with the correct libraries because Debian's libs are just a tad different.] I know my mom doesn't want anything to do with the above...
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What kind of newbies do you want testing Corel Linux? Would you want me: the learns-about-debian-from-a-friend, installs it himself and is currently figuring out how to recompile a kernel newbie...? Or do you want the MacOS/Win casual user who just types WPs and etc? I doubt Corel is making an OS for the latter... Windows is indeed good enough for this first group of people, and more economical as well. Consider the time it takes to install your typical linux distro... I know that Debian takes long enough! :) Although Linux is free, time is money for joe-shmoe desktop user who doesn't really have time for some of the odd admin-duties that Linux requires sometimes... not to mention learning BASH, X, or reading the FM... or setting up Netscape with the correct libraries because Debian's libs are just a tad different.] I know my mom doesn't want anything to do with the above...