On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> 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.
> ---
>
> 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.
>
The powerpack contains 6 disks
disk 1 -- installation disk, same as the iso download
disk 2 -- sources for apps on disk 1
disk 3 -- assorted rpms
disk 4 -- sources for disk 2 (source rpms)
disk 5 -- commercial software / demos, mostly not open source/freeware
disk 6 -- commercial software / demos, once again mot open source or freeware.
If you want the open source apps, either get the source rpms and build them, or
get the binary rpm. You can get most (if not all) from rpmfind.net, many of the
binary rpms there are actually compiled for the i586 (mostly since Mandrake
has the second greatest number of rpm contribs on the server).
If you want the commercial app demos, many of them are available from the
individual vendors, the only thing the powerpack does is save you the download
time.
The biggest gripe I have with 7.0, is that the howto's are on the contrib disk
3, rather than on the main install disk, like thay have been in the past.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
