In late 2001, Corel disabled download of WP 8.0 DPE from its ftp site, but it remains available elsewhere. However, Corel also introduced a WP 8.0 Download Personal Edition, which could be downloaded free of charge as a gzipped tar archive, and was also redistributed for the cost of media on CD-ROMs, in either tar.gz or RPM format.

WP 8.0 editions for Linux were mostly similar: The Server Edition and Personal Edition boxed-set versions were as detailed for prior versions. (By 'boxed set', I mean that the product was not available for download, only in a retail box, via stores or mail-order.) The lower-priced Personal Edition boxed set omitted both multiuser/NFS support and the console version.

The (premium-priced) Server Edition boxed-set version included multiuser support and NFS locking, and included both an X11 version ('xwp') and a text-mode/console one ('wp'). WP versions 6 and 7 for Linux (native ports coded by SD Corp) are long gone from the market, at this date. So, Corel always attempts to use one main codebase, the Win32 version (the MacOS one having been axed in May 2001, per ) as the flagship version, and minimises time and money spent on other OSes' versions.įor similar reasons, the WP product line is always fundamentally less diverse than it seems: To fill different niches and hit various price points, WP is/was offered in different 'editions', with more features omitted or disabled from the base 'Server' edition (about US $500, boxed set) as one descends the price scale. Proprietary software companies are motivated to keep development costs down and product-development cycles short. The Corel Netwinder Linux-based computer was a third. As a proprietary software company, Corel wants customers to buy its boxed-set products. To understand Corel's WP versions for Linux, and what they're like, it helps to know the company's product history.

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