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A quick look back at Corel Linux OS, another attempt to make a competing Windows-like OS (www.neowin.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone else remember Corel Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Weak comparison...

BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 10 months ago

It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system!