On Monday 20 November 2000 18:29, you wrote:
> on 11/19/00 9:25 PM, Ron Stodden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In your situation, I would take it back and get your $32 back. Then
> > download or buy the REAL Mandrake 7.2
>
> Well, I certainly will try to return it, albeit the issue with returning
> opened software boxes is a tricky one... Either way, this, of course, begs
> the question:
>
> What *IS* the 'real' Mandrake 7.2?
>
> The box states 'Linux-Mandrake 7.2 complete'. It's published by MacMillan
> (MandrakeSoft's US distributor). You can't get any more 'real' than that,
> at least by appearance.
>
> Seeing as how Mandrake whines on about how they have to make money to pay
> for their salaries (a legitimate concern) I figured that $32 isn't going to
> break me, and that at least I'd be contributing a bit. I made sure that
> this was not the WalMart version, and figured I would therefore be 'safe'.
>
> After all, if I were to download Mandrake, I would spend no money, but
> neither would Mandrake earn any. Buy the 'real' Mandrake? Would the real
> Mandrake please stand up?
>
> I'm certainly not going to risk and additional $79.95 on another
> 'experiment, only to find out that this is an incomplete release version as
> well. Besides, I stopped purchasing RedHat when they jacked their prices up
> in the $79.95 range, so if I'm going to spend that kind of money, I'm going
> to buy RedHat - at least their distro works.
>
> So, what to do?
>
> > Yes, the promotion is misleading (or worse) to an experienced
> > Mandrake User
>
> Yeah, seeing as how I'm not the only one having versioning problems, I'd
> say that's about accurate. Seeing as how Mandrake's attitude appears to be
> that most users who have this problem are either stpid or lazy, I don't see
> that changing soon.
>
> > (probably none of which are to be found in Macmillan,
> > WalMart, Mandrake(?) marketing).
>
> Apparently, the one constant in the Universe are marketing people - just
> like in the US, if you prove incompetent at much else, you go to marketing.
>
> Harry
I think that if u will not have to paid anything more than your 32$ you could
download the 2 iso from any of the mirrors (you could find them in the
mandrake site)
it will take you 2 hours with an adsl or 2 days with an ISDN if you've a
faster one so it's not a problems .
I've download them and they are very complete , you could also download the
chris upgrade for kde it have very good improvment (don't forget to exit from
kde and run a update-menus -v after the upgrade;-) .
I think you will see that is the best distro and forget the problem that was
an incidence that is not the fault of Mandrake .....
