Adam Williamson posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:45:56 +0100:
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:37, Serge Pluess wrote: > >> I agree that this is a good approach to encourage people to join, but >> for the comment of the boxed-set, that just seems to be more-or-less a >> joke. >> 9.0 and 9.1 boxes never hit the shelves here at the main stores such as >> Fry's Electronic, CompUSA or BestBuy. One day one lonely box of 8.2 was >> sitting at Fry's next to lots and lots of boxes of Redhat 9, Suse 8.2, >> and current versions of Lycoris, Lindows, FreeBSD and NetBSD. > > not everyone lives in America. not everyone buys boxes from stores. No.. but for the rats jumping the MSWormOS ship, here in the US, having the boxed version available is important if you want their first Linux experience to be Mandrake, rather than one that IS available, and on the shelf. How do I know? I was in that position not SO many years ago, myself. My first Linux experiment was Mandrake 5.0, IIRC, the Macmillan (sp?) version. I tried it but didn't do much with it after the install. My second one was Mdk 6.1 IIRC (whatever one it was that first had the Athlon patches). Again, I didn't do a whole lot with it, but having done both of those, and having decided to get serious so having asked for recommendations and having read the Rearing Horse (OReilly's Running Linux) I was ready to try 8.1 d/l edition straight off the mirrors, as it wasn't available in stores yet, unfortunately. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
