Kinda - as greg said in his post about his problems that some packages are
missing altogether, like gentoo, and gkrellm - who know's what else.
On Monday 30 October 2000 11:53, you wrote:
> On Monday 30 October 2000 06:26 am, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:56:55PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > > So sprach Robert D. Williams am Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:24:00PM -0600:
> > > > Does Mandrake publish their own packaging that will be available in
> > > > the US?
> > >
> > > While we're at it, what about other parts of the world? To be honest,
> > > I haven't seen a Mandrake box here in Germany, but this may be just
> > > because I haven't looked :] Who does the packaging for the rest of the
> > > world?
> >
> > It depends. For the United States, AFAIK MacMillian is the sole
> > distributer (CheapBytes, CD-R aside.).
> >
> > For other parts of the world MacMillian may not have a sole official
> > distributer role on the distribution of Linux-Mandrake, still, "official"
> > boxes from Mandrake are not on sale (probably shops are lazy to order?),
> > for example, here in Hong Kong I have seen CheapBytes CD for sale, I have
> > seen MacMillian boxed sets for sale, but no "Essential pack" or
> > "PowerPack".
>
> So it looks like US users are stuck with a pre-Mandrake? There are other
> options, but still...
>
> If I bought this version from Macmillian, will I be able to us Mandrake
> Update to get the latest stuff?
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