I am of the opinion that Mandrake ought to be suing Macmillan rather
than cross-liscencing to them.
The whole point (for me) of buying the distribution was to get support
from the company that could address the problems, so in BIG LETTERS it
says MANDRAKE 7.0 and in little tiny letters it says "Macmillan."
That's why I'm trying to get the cooker list to function like the
support I thought I'd already paid for, I suppose.
Macmillan handles installation problems that stop an install, but they
don't talk about suggestions & so forth.
PS: Caldera responded within *hours* to the biggest problem I had with
their distribution, so my experience hasn't been the same as that of
other folks. It is true that they are "all or nothing," though, if it
doesn't support your hardware you're SOL. That's why I'm running
Mandrake right now.
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Dev Null....it sounds like you bought a MacMillan distribition
| of Linux Mandrake 7.0, not a MandrakeSoft package. In the
| MandrakeSoft package both Wordperfect 8 and Star Office 5.1 are
| included in rpm format. Caveat Emptor. :-)
|
| Alan
|
|
| Dev Null wrote:
| >
| > I was evaluating the various boxes of Mandrake available on the shelf at the
| > local store to determine which one I wanted. It was fairly obvious I was going
| > to get a 7.0 edition, but which one?
| >
| > I can't remember the name of one of them, I think it was the "Complete" edition.
| > It showed on the back 3 or 4 different books (Linux how-to) and labeled them as
| > "Linux Library".
| >
| > Up above the photos of the books it has a feature comparison of Linux Mandrake,
| > Red Hat, and Corel. "Linux Library" was one listed as included with Mandrake
| > but not with the other two.
| >
| > On the "Deluxe" edition of Mandrake it didn't show any photos of any books, but
| > in the feature comparison section it showed that Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe had a
| > "Linux Library" that Red Hat and Corel did not.
| >
| > In addition the Deluxe box lists "Additional HOW-TOs and other Linux
| > documentation" under "Additional Applications and Utilities" on the back.
| >
| > I purchased the Deluxe package because I thought I was getting the "Complete"
| > package and more (I think one of the pluses was WordPerfect 8 Light).
| >
| > Now I'm looking on my 6 CDs and I can't seem to find these publications.
| >
| > Question 1. What is the "Linux Library" as advertised on the back of the Deluxe
| > box?
| >
| > Question 2. If it is the same publications as what is labeled "Linux Library"
| > on the Complete edition, where are they located?
| >
| > /dev/null
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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