▲ 242 ▼ A quick look back at Corel Linux OS, another attempt to make a competing Windows-like OS (www.neowin.net) submitted 2 years ago by d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz [M] to c/linux@lemmy.ml 48 comments fedilink hide all child comments Anyone else remember Corel Linux?
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Uh... In what way does BeOS have any similarities to Windows 9x? It resembles more like Next step if at all. The Author never took a look at it huh? But no I've never heard of Corel Linux. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I guess that's my fault here that I lived through the 90s starting with windows 3.1. I saw Teleshopping praising and selling the illegal BeOS variant Zeta. But I always found it's dockable windows very cool. Something that no other OS ever did, not even today. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Didn't Fluxbox have dockable windows? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Does it? With Dockable Windows I mean the following: you have a file browser and a text editor and you snap them together so the titlebar acts as a tabbar and you can tab between the file browser and the text editor in the same window. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yep, that's Fluxbox tabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20240202172611/http://fluxbox.org/features/ Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. This can be combined with the "autogrouping" feature that is provided via the apps-file. This will make certain applications tab together by default. Tabs can eiher be embedded into the window's titlebar as shown in the upper screenshot or they can appear as little tabs at the outside of a window such as the lower example. The position and size of the outside-tabs is customizable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago That's cool. Thanks for sharing! permalink fedilink source parent [–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 2 years ago (3 children) Looks like win 95 IMO :-D permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Looks like win 95 IMO :-D No Taskbar, Tasklist on the top right (also not in front), Dockable Windows, Package Manager, Bright Yellow half titlebars permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) How's the atlantic anything like the pacific? smaller not in the same spot doesn't get the same amount of sun different countries in it doesn't help you go to the same places by boat Truly nothing in common. Might as well be comparing an apple to caulking a window permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Weak comparison... BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) It literally does not. It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right. Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95. https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system! permalink fedilink source parent [–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago Aside from "has windows"... How? permalink fedilink source parent [–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago You're not wrong. KDE 1.x very much aimed at the Win95 market. They even directly targeted the windows userbase with jokes. The ordinal Win95 had a little fly-in animation that said "Where do you want to go today?" with an arrow pointing at the start menu. KDE 1.0 had this too, but it said "tomorrow" instead of "today". Etc. KDE also stole good ideas from wherever they were found. Trash is thus called because of Apple. The virtual desktops came from CDE. Etc. Sometimes it stole too much, and we would have discussions about flying too close to the sun, and tweak something so it would be just different enough not to raise the ire of lawyers. Corel Linux was a KDE distro, so it largely had that familiar Win9x look, even if it felt different once you were actually using it. KDE later developed it's own identity, but it retains its history and the baggage that comes with it. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I guess that's my fault here that I lived through the 90s starting with windows 3.1. I saw Teleshopping praising and selling the illegal BeOS variant Zeta. But I always found it's dockable windows very cool. Something that no other OS ever did, not even today. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Didn't Fluxbox have dockable windows? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Does it? With Dockable Windows I mean the following: you have a file browser and a text editor and you snap them together so the titlebar acts as a tabbar and you can tab between the file browser and the text editor in the same window. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yep, that's Fluxbox tabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20240202172611/http://fluxbox.org/features/ Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. This can be combined with the "autogrouping" feature that is provided via the apps-file. This will make certain applications tab together by default. Tabs can eiher be embedded into the window's titlebar as shown in the upper screenshot or they can appear as little tabs at the outside of a window such as the lower example. The position and size of the outside-tabs is customizable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago That's cool. Thanks for sharing! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I guess that's my fault here that I lived through the 90s starting with windows 3.1. I saw Teleshopping praising and selling the illegal BeOS variant Zeta. But I always found it's dockable windows very cool. Something that no other OS ever did, not even today. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Didn't Fluxbox have dockable windows? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Does it? With Dockable Windows I mean the following: you have a file browser and a text editor and you snap them together so the titlebar acts as a tabbar and you can tab between the file browser and the text editor in the same window. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yep, that's Fluxbox tabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20240202172611/http://fluxbox.org/features/ Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. This can be combined with the "autogrouping" feature that is provided via the apps-file. This will make certain applications tab together by default. Tabs can eiher be embedded into the window's titlebar as shown in the upper screenshot or they can appear as little tabs at the outside of a window such as the lower example. The position and size of the outside-tabs is customizable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago That's cool. Thanks for sharing! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Didn't Fluxbox have dockable windows? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Does it? With Dockable Windows I mean the following: you have a file browser and a text editor and you snap them together so the titlebar acts as a tabbar and you can tab between the file browser and the text editor in the same window. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yep, that's Fluxbox tabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20240202172611/http://fluxbox.org/features/ Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. This can be combined with the "autogrouping" feature that is provided via the apps-file. This will make certain applications tab together by default. Tabs can eiher be embedded into the window's titlebar as shown in the upper screenshot or they can appear as little tabs at the outside of a window such as the lower example. The position and size of the outside-tabs is customizable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago That's cool. Thanks for sharing! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Does it? With Dockable Windows I mean the following: you have a file browser and a text editor and you snap them together so the titlebar acts as a tabbar and you can tab between the file browser and the text editor in the same window. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yep, that's Fluxbox tabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20240202172611/http://fluxbox.org/features/ Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. This can be combined with the "autogrouping" feature that is provided via the apps-file. This will make certain applications tab together by default. Tabs can eiher be embedded into the window's titlebar as shown in the upper screenshot or they can appear as little tabs at the outside of a window such as the lower example. The position and size of the outside-tabs is customizable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago That's cool. Thanks for sharing! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yep, that's Fluxbox tabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20240202172611/http://fluxbox.org/features/ Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. This can be combined with the "autogrouping" feature that is provided via the apps-file. This will make certain applications tab together by default. Tabs can eiher be embedded into the window's titlebar as shown in the upper screenshot or they can appear as little tabs at the outside of a window such as the lower example. The position and size of the outside-tabs is customizable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago That's cool. Thanks for sharing! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago That's cool. Thanks for sharing! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 2 years ago (3 children) Looks like win 95 IMO :-D permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Looks like win 95 IMO :-D No Taskbar, Tasklist on the top right (also not in front), Dockable Windows, Package Manager, Bright Yellow half titlebars permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) How's the atlantic anything like the pacific? smaller not in the same spot doesn't get the same amount of sun different countries in it doesn't help you go to the same places by boat Truly nothing in common. Might as well be comparing an apple to caulking a window permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Weak comparison... BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) It literally does not. It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right. Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95. https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system! permalink fedilink source parent [–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago Aside from "has windows"... How? permalink fedilink source parent [–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago You're not wrong. KDE 1.x very much aimed at the Win95 market. They even directly targeted the windows userbase with jokes. The ordinal Win95 had a little fly-in animation that said "Where do you want to go today?" with an arrow pointing at the start menu. KDE 1.0 had this too, but it said "tomorrow" instead of "today". Etc. KDE also stole good ideas from wherever they were found. Trash is thus called because of Apple. The virtual desktops came from CDE. Etc. Sometimes it stole too much, and we would have discussions about flying too close to the sun, and tweak something so it would be just different enough not to raise the ire of lawyers. Corel Linux was a KDE distro, so it largely had that familiar Win9x look, even if it felt different once you were actually using it. KDE later developed it's own identity, but it retains its history and the baggage that comes with it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Looks like win 95 IMO :-D No Taskbar, Tasklist on the top right (also not in front), Dockable Windows, Package Manager, Bright Yellow half titlebars permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) How's the atlantic anything like the pacific? smaller not in the same spot doesn't get the same amount of sun different countries in it doesn't help you go to the same places by boat Truly nothing in common. Might as well be comparing an apple to caulking a window permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Weak comparison... BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) It literally does not. It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right. Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95. https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) How's the atlantic anything like the pacific? smaller not in the same spot doesn't get the same amount of sun different countries in it doesn't help you go to the same places by boat Truly nothing in common. Might as well be comparing an apple to caulking a window permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Weak comparison... BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) It literally does not. It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right. Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95. https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Weak comparison... BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) It literally does not. It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right. Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95. https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) It literally does not. It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right. Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95. https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) It literally does not. It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right. Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95. https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago Aside from "has windows"... How? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago You're not wrong. KDE 1.x very much aimed at the Win95 market. They even directly targeted the windows userbase with jokes. The ordinal Win95 had a little fly-in animation that said "Where do you want to go today?" with an arrow pointing at the start menu. KDE 1.0 had this too, but it said "tomorrow" instead of "today". Etc. KDE also stole good ideas from wherever they were found. Trash is thus called because of Apple. The virtual desktops came from CDE. Etc. Sometimes it stole too much, and we would have discussions about flying too close to the sun, and tweak something so it would be just different enough not to raise the ire of lawyers. Corel Linux was a KDE distro, so it largely had that familiar Win9x look, even if it felt different once you were actually using it. KDE later developed it's own identity, but it retains its history and the baggage that comes with it. permalink fedilink source parent