Recently, Corel announced that it was making Corel WordPerfect 8 available for free (monetarily, not source, unfortunately) over the Internet for personal use. They announced this at last year’s Atlanta Linux Showcase. While the version they make available is not fully featured, this is the version many people are downloading, so I decided to review it here.
WordPerfect 8 is a large program — 28.6 megabytes to be exact. It took something like two hours to download from the overloaded site http//:Download.com, which is the site that Corel’s WordPerfect 8 page took me to. Luckily I use Linux and not a lesser operating system with a buggy TCP/IP stack, so I spent most of this time working in other workspaces, but I digress….
After the download completed I was presented with a tarball that I promptly opened. I ran the installation program, aptly named, “Runme”. The installation routine began with what many believe should be the standard for installing a program, namely a series of colorful, informative dialog boxes. You can run the install routine as a regular user and it turns out fine, although I also ran it as root to make sure that the program installed well both…
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