Editing WordPerfect (section)

===Linux===
In 1995, '''WordPerfect 6.0''' was made available for [[Linux]] as part of [[Caldera (company)|Caldera]]'s Internet office package. In late 1997, a newer version was made available for download, but had to be purchased to be activated.

In 1998 Corel released '''WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux'''. The full version was sold as a package. A cut-down version was made available for downloading.

Hoping to establish themselves in the nascent commercial Linux market, Corel also developed their [[Corel Linux|own distribution]] of Linux. This included '''WordPerfect 8.1 for Linux'''. Although the Linux distribution was fairly well-received, the response to WordPerfect for Linux varied. Some Linux promoters {{Who|date=November 2011}} appreciated the availability of a well-known, mainstream application for the operating system.

Once [[OpenOffice.org]] appeared in 1999, there was little demand for a proprietary, closed-source project like WordPerfect.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} On top of this, '''WordPerfect 9.0''', which was released as part of the '''WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux''' package, was not a native Linux application like WP 6–8, but derived from the Windows version using Corel's own version of the [[Wine (software)|Wine]] compatibility library, and hence had performance problems.

WordPerfect failed to gain a large user base, and as part of Corel's change of strategic direction following a (non-voting) investment by Microsoft, WordPerfect for Linux was discontinued and their Linux distribution was sold to [[Xandros]].<ref name="Corporate Background">{{cite web |url = http://www.xandros.com/about/corporatebackground.html |title = Xandros Corporate Background |publisher = Xandros |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040409194020/http://www.xandros.com/about/corporatebackground.html |archive-date = April 9, 2004 |access-date = June 5, 2007 }}</ref> In April 2004, Corel re-released WordPerfect 8.1 (the last Linux-native version) with some updates, as a "proof of concept" and to test the Linux market. {{As of|2011}}, WordPerfect for Linux is not available for purchase.

As of 2023, WordPerfect for Linux (also known as xwp) can still be run on modern [[Linux distribution|distros]].<ref>Peter Stone's very useful "Using WordPerfect on Linux" available at http://xwp8users.com/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815202058/http://xwp8users.com/ |date=August 15, 2020 }}</ref>

Linux applications may use the <code>libwpd</code> library to convert WordPerfect documents.<ref>
{{cite web |url = http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/ |title = libwpd&nbsp;— a library for importing WordPerfect (tm) documents |publisher = SourceForge |access-date = July 2, 2012 |quote = libwpd is a C++ library designed to help process WordPerfect documents. [...] libwpd is used by LibreOffice, AbiWord, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and KOffice. }}
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