Nitin Raja Bhatia wrote:
>
> Basicly the advantage of getting a PowerPack is owning a physical manual
> (paper... reallly!) and getting technical support. You also get a few
> extra cds one is the basic disc, one is filled with source, the others
> are samples of mostly commericial applications. I do not know the full
> details but the linux-mandrake.com site will fill you in.
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I was a bit confused on this, then. My understanding is that
this contained a disk of freeware/opensource apps as well a commercial
apps for demo. I don't need a base distrib -- got that. Don't need
a manual, got that. What I'd like are the other freeware apps Precompiled
for Mandrake in the -march=pentium manner.
SuSE's releases do something similar in their base distrib
as Mandrake does in it's powerpack. They have 3 CD's that contain
the base distrib & freeware apps (so it's like 1 base CD and 2 app CD's,
'cept that they are all mixed together into 3). Then they have a
4th CD that has "pay-ware" stuff on it -- demo versions of various
products that you need to pay to get fully-operating versions, then
a CD with documentation, and a 6th CD with source. All for about $60
Retail -- including a big fat manual that I think I looked at once
while the install was running cuz I was bored. (I have more than one
system counting work systems).
So what I'm looking for are those "2-CD's worth" of extra
apps/freeware.
I also recently installed Corel in a VMware machine -- they
really have a tiny/toy distrib. Probably best word processor available
for Linux, but the distrib was so 'toy'. Really meant to be a WIN98
replacement -- with about as much flexibility and security -- probably
great for my parents.
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